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1982 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Death Valley; An Officer and a Gentleman; Blade Runner; Silent Rage; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; 48 HRS.; Trail of the Pink Panther; Will: G. Gordon Liddy; The World According to Garp; Tootsie; The Secret of NIMH; The Elephant Man; Star Trek IV: The Wrath of Khan; Airplane II:The Sequel; Brimstone and Treacle; Amityville II: Tha Possession; Vice Squad; The Missionary; The Last Unicorn; Rocky III; Honkytonk Man; Burden of Dreams; The Challenge; If You Could See What I Hear

General News:

Consumer Price Index: 289.1

An underground FEDERATION base is established at or near the USAF Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. military base.

1982 -
By this year, In excess of 40,000 nuclear weapons were in the arsenals of the USA and the USSR combined.
The largest of those weapons was 4,000 times greater in blast and destructive power than those dropped on either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The total destructive capability of these 40,000 weapons is 1 million times greater than the Hiroshima bomb and represents the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT explosive for every man, woman and child on the Earth!

Yet the race goes on, more weapons ... capable of hitting a target many thousands of miles away with an accuracy of better than 50 metres.

1982 - During the year,
The Possible Source of the Marburg filovirus was found to be suggested by the testimony of a monkey inspector who had worked in Uganda during a period in which his rich monkey trader employer was exporting 13,000 monkeys a year to Europe for biological experimentation and murder. The inspector had been in charge of removing apparent ill monkeys from the shipment which he believed were then killed. Later he found that the sick monkeys were sent to an "isle of plagues" (later determined to be near the Sese Islands and not far from Entebbe) in northwestern Lake Victoria. Even later, the inspector discovered that if the trader found he was short on supply for a shipment, he would collect the remaining few which he required from the small island refuge. Even much later, the inspector remembered hearing from tribesmen in eastern Uganda of a disease among the people who lived on the northern slopes of Mount Elgon, along the Greek River. Both they and the monkeys in the region were dying of a disease that resulted in a peculiar skin rash, bleeding, and death. The inspector had never seen the results of the Marburg disease nor heard of the outbreaks until long after they had occurred. Yet, with modern transportation practices - the disease can be transplanted to any location in the world within 24 hours.

1982 - By January,
Epstein-Barr chronic virus infection was becoming an epidemic environmental illness in North America.
Most doctors would not have heard of it or be familiar with it for over a decade. It is characterized by severe fatigue, sore throat, tender lymph nodes, mild fever, an inability to concentrate, depression, and mental confusion. No conventional medical treatment would prove effective in either controlling or curing the illness. It would be almost a decade before North American physicians and holistic health practitioners would become somewhat familiar with it. Due to a cultural perception block in the understanding, prevention and treatment of stress-induced illness patterns, the medical establishment and the general population would be slow to acknowledge a concept of positive and negative stresses in which a balance results in health. Fundamental to the cure of the illness will be the understanding of Energy Blocks, stated in a special appendix file attached to this report.

1982 - In the January 11th issue of the "Crisis Advisory Newsletter",
Editor Ben Barker wrote:

"My publication is an attempt to channel the fury that I feel about how the Destroyers have planted their fangs in my nation, and are sucking out our life blood. Destroyers come in all sizes and shapes, and many of them are bureaucrats, programmed to follow instructions no matter the consequences. Inflexible union demands. Coercive minority-backed programs such as busing. Elected representatives who behave like a gang of thieves with impunity. ...

The options are limited in a world dominated by Destroyers - you may hold still and be consumed now, run and be consumed latter, or attack and risk being consumed sooner. ... The major task (of the newsletter) will be to keep that anger (against authoritarian governments) from exploding into direct confrontations. The government agents love direct confrontations. They're the type of people who would use a sledge hammer to exterminate a fly. ...

The human animal loves familiarity more than anything else, and will accept familiar misery above other courses of action. So, we see that very few are capable of real change unless that change is precipitated by a crisis of some sort. They are simply unable to change their state of mind, and they remain poor in body and spirit.

The war against poverty is how most of us define our lives, and most of us lose - succumbing to debt and poor money management. That war is a trap. It was set by evil men whose dream of control and dominance put them at the helm of the money machine. ...

There are millions of Americans who do not understand that the dreams of the Mega-bankers will reduce them to lives of poverty and desperation. ... The Destroyers are so powerful, so many and so clever that it is folly to resist them. They control governments, banks, major business enterprises - all the tools that matter in this life of sensuality and materialism. What they do not control - the spiritual - they discount. ...

The many single-issue groups pressuring for fragmented slices of freedom are symptomatic of the struggle. Do we have the right to retain our guns? Isn't income tax truly unconstitutional? Hasn't government at all levels grown to unsustainable size and assumed tyrannical powers? ...

The word is spreading. There is a war going on. It threatens to reduce you and your children to the status of slaves. Those without wealth are slaves."

1982 - In January,
Robert Michael (Bob) Gates was appointed Deputy Director for Intelligence, National Foreign Assessment Center, C.I.A., by the then DCI, Stansfield Turner. He had been the National Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union. He would become Acting Director of Central Intelligence in 1986. He occupied himself with extending the range of analysis undertaken by the agency, defining 10 major areas of investigation and concern in the development of the estimating process in the future. By October, his list of trends, he believed, would dominate intelligence to the year 2000. His approach was bureaucratic and methodological. His trends were these:

     1. Electronic dissemination of finished intelligence;
     2. Desired data would be more secretive and restricted;
     3. Recruitment would be more difficult;
     4. Congress would become a partner with the Agency;
     5. Intelligence information would be used for "public education";
     6. Other nations would use and criticize USA intelligence data;
     7. A dramatic increase in the diversity of the subjects of concern;
     8. An increasing growth in the diversity of the users of the data;
     9. Intelligence would become more central to foreign policy;
    10. Intelligence was the only government arm looking to the future.

Gates was structuring what national intelligence organizations in all major human military-industrial nations have done: plan the chess moves for the political leader(s). Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Truman had all known this and used their agencies to that end. Their secret agencies had used pride, envy, anger, deception, manipulation, coercion, greed, lies, intrigue and murder to acquire information about factors which could lead to an "advantage of power" over other nations. They then used those same factors to elevate their own degree of power, used covert actions to confuse the use of those factors, or, used prompt action to subvert those factors.

It was a game of strategy.
Games of strategy demand a distrust and dislike of one's opponent.
Humans frequently euphemize these facets until spears are thrown.
Materialistic, emotional or traditional may be the motivations but they are never spiritual.
Motivations based on trust, honesty, and shared advantage have been shown throughout the universe, although humanity still cannot possess faith in such truth, as the foundation to cooperation, happiness and survival.

1982 - Early in the year,
Jim Dilettoso, who had worked at creating sound using digital sound synthesizers, and a former employee of "Micor Corporation", examined, with a digital sound analyzer the beamship soundtapes which the Meier's had recorded. After taking the sounds apart he could not duplicate them.

"That was the point at which I was blown away.
To the ear they don't sound that unusual. It sounds like what you'd expect a sci-fi flying saucer to sound like. But upon analysis, they're continually shifting and changing, and combinations of them are getting louder and softer and doing things at such a rapid rate that even with a synthesizer being able to generate that many sounds it would be really, really complex."

1982 - On February 7,
William Goodlett, a Walk-in from Salem, Virginia, experienced -

(p 130) "There's an older man sitting next to me ... dressed in a long skin cloak, with gray hair and a long gray beard. We are in my house, a large, circular room about 30 or 40 feet in diameter. The walls are upright logs or poles touching each other, and sunk into the ground. A roof of logs or beams is overhead. There is an opening in one side covered by a cloth drape. We are sitting on large flat stones at the end of a circular depression about 18 inches deep and five or six feet across. The bottom is covered with sand, and in the middle of it is a stone fireplace with a small fire burning. The smoke and heat are rising towards an open hole in the roof.

It was something like the Navajo hogans I have seen out west, but we were nit Indians, we were Caucasians. I also knew that we had a mild, cool climate. The older man was telling me that the Chief would give me a thousand, or perhaps as high as three thousand measures of grain for my eldest daughter, who was about 15 years old, to become his son's wife. I was aware that the Chief had several sons, and that I had 10 children and 2 wives. The boy was to become part of the bride's family and work for me. This would be his dowry, and I was planning to go to another part of the land and open up a new section to farm. We were all farmers, but settled a long distance from each other in a land of low, rolling hills with some lakes and streams. I did not see this, but simply knew it as we discussed the dowry, in another language whose meaning I was automatically translating into English while I was in the body of this man.

I did not see the boy but knew that he was a slender young man, blond and long-haired, named David. We were dressed in knee-length cloaks belted at the waist. Our pants were tied from the ankles up by crossed straps to the knees, and we wore heavy skin boots that reached slightly higher than the ankles. We sat with our feet down in the pit, resting them on the sandy bottom in front of the fire. The old man was going to see the Chief and try and get a good bargain for me, for the boy. There was no one else in the house with us at the time, but I could hear talking outside. I felt very comfortable and at home there."

1982 - By March,
Rob Shellman, a sound engineer with the U.S. Navy sonar sound laboratory in Groton, Connecticut had examined the recording which Jim Dilettoso had of the Pleiadian beamships heard by the Meier's in Switzerland. He eliminated one major possibility which would have indicated fraud: the Meier's could not have used any electrical AC source to create the sounds.

"The equipment was set up to analyze for 50 or 60 hz line frequencies, which are common electrical outlets. If the device that generates the sound was an electric motor or machine the line frequencies would be evident. No such frequencies were detected."

In typical yet unscientific concepts, the assumption made by most educated (proud and species-centred) humans is that anything indicative of an extraterrestrial technology must have NOTHING in common with the Earth or any technology developed on the Earth. This is similar to assuming that the Earth is NOT part of the universe: it stands apart from the commonalities present in the rest of the universe; that Earth is a planet totally at odds with the rest of the universe. In the study of extraterrestrial beings, this is akin to believing that the Earth is the centre of the universe.

1982 - By March,
The "Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act" was passed as a USA federal law by the Congress to authorize banks and savings institutions to offer a Money Market Account - a transaction account with no interest rate ceiling - intended to compete with money market mutual funds. It was an attempt to stop the depositor run on the banking industry as depositors took their cash and put it into mutual funds and other (non-bank asset) investments.

The Act also gave the Savings & Loans (S&Ls) associations the authority to make commercial, corporate, business, or agricultural loans up to 10% of assets after January 1, 1984. S&Ls were also authorized to increase their consumer lending, from 20% to 30% of assets, and to expand their dealer lending and floor-plan (car) loan financing.

It represented a monetary policy in which the government was attempting to stimulate the economy by making higher-risk banking services more easily available so as to force an apparent real capital growth through additional use of credit. For the banks, competition was on for who could get the most. More loans could mean higher profits.

1982 - On March 28,
At El Chichon, Mexico, an eruption consisting of 3 major explosions over a period of 7 days occurred.
500 million tons of ash were blasted into the atmosphere.
The devastation was widespread with 187 reported killed.
A veil of 20 million tons of sulphuric acid droplets were spread around the Earth in less than a month.
Acid rain tends to stunt and kill vegetation, and, if prolonged, may affect the acidity of fresh water lakes such that fish stocks decline.

1982 - Beginning on April 4,
The Galunggung volcano, Indonesia began erupting.
In 1822, an eruption had killed 4,000 people, but in this series of eruptions of ash, continuing through to August, only a few people lost their lives while 75,000 were evacuated. Many villages all but disappeared under ash drifts; volcanic mudslides (lahars) followed when the rains came and two 747 airliners en route to Australia were almost brought down by sucking ash into their engines.

1982 - In April,
James Fallows, author of "National Defense", demonstrates that defence spending is inherently more inflationary than other kinds of government spending. The problem with military spending is that it adds to the demand for goods by providing wages, and profits to contractors, but it does not increase the supply of goods and services on which money may be spent. This is not true of other kinds of spending. For example, public money spent on transportation and communication helps to develop the structure upon which other productive activity depends. Money spent on schools, clinics, and regulatory agencies contributes to a higher level of production than is possible without a healthy educated workforce or an orderly market. Many economists agree for this reason that public money would be better spent in areas other than the military.

1982 - In May,
Nils Rognerud, a designer, electronic consultant and computer engineer in Los Angeles, took the Pleiadian beamship soundtape from Jim Dilettoso to a sound lab and converted the sounds to wavy lines on a spectrum analyzer. As he watched, the various frequencies vibrated up and down across the screen, converged into a thick zigzag, then split apart and converged again. Rognerud called a second consultant, Steve Ambrose, who built custom microphones for rock stars and had built a tiny wireless radio receiver and speaker that fit inside Stevie Wonder's ear. The radio, called a Micro Monitor, was one of two inventions Ambrose had patented. He understood sound synthesizers and their capabilities. After listening to the sounds awhile and watching it on the spectrum analyzer, he told rognerud that the sounds could not possibly have been made with a synthesizer. They were analog, or natural sounds, and he agreed with Rognerud that they seemed authentic.

"If someone is perpetrating a hoax, they went to some length.
Synthesizers use oscillators that are capable of making things that sound real.
But the frequencies that this sound generated were so random and varied it was beyond the capabilities of an oscillator or even a group of oscillators. You'd have to use a microphone of some analog, natural sound like that of a lathe, metal cutting metal, which has low frequencies and high frequencies, and if you speeded it up or slowed it down you could get the various frequencies that would resemble what this had on it. But even then you'd have to take that and layer it several times, mixing one sound in with another, and this just didn't sound like something that had been layered, track upon track upon track.

When you've dealt with recording and electronic sound you get to be able to hear what happens when you layer one sound on top of another. This was a single sound source recording that had an amazing frequency response. ... How could you duplicate that sound? I'm not just talking about how it sounded to your ears, but how do you show those various things on a spectrum analyzer and on the scope that it was doing? It's one thing to make something that sounds like it and has those consistent and random oscillations in it. If it's a hoax, I'd like to meet the guy who did it, because he could probably make a lot of money in special effects."

1982 - By May 16,
The fact that Israel has 200 Nuclear Weapons is revealed in the public press.
The fact would be disputed and denied until the fall of 1986, when an Israeli nuclear technician publicly confirms the fact. It would then result in anxious discussions.

1982 - By June 2,
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had prepared evacuation plans for 380 designated "high risk areas" across the USA. These plans intended to save 80% of the American population. Blast shelters had been constructed for key government and industry workers who would remain in the vicinity of the major cities.

Fifty miles outside Washington, D.C., a bunker known as "Mount Weather" had been dug into the side of a granite mountain. This is one of 19 bunkers situated within 300 miles of Washington which is intended to house top government officials in the event of a nuclear attack. "Inside, there are streets, sidewalks, a fleet of electric cars, a small underground lake and dormitories with about 2,000 beds. " Duplicates of all important government documents are stored there. The President and his advisers are expected to continue to control the nation from the air in a specially designed jumbo jet.

1982 - During June,
A PLO Artillery Bombardment of the villages of northern Galilee from a terrorist base in southern Lebanon, was countered by the Israelis. When the Israeli army entered Lebanon to destroy the PLO bases, they were astonished to uncover huge supplies of Soviet-made weapons stockpiled in tunnels carved out of rock by an amazing nuclear energy powered tunneling machine developed in the USSR and similar to that used much earlier in the Alternative 3, America-based program. There were tanks, anti-tank missiles, and thousands of shells. Huge underground supply dumps contained hundreds of thousands of uniforms, AK-47 assault rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition. Israeli Colonel (reserve) Yehuda Levi, Israeli Defense media spokesperson confirmed these reports shortly afterwards. For months, convoys of large covered trucks carried these captured weapons out of Lebanon into Israel. A new arms supplier of new Soviet-made weapons would be Israel. In a distant deployment of military forces, it is always preferable, when possible, to position the military equipment near the point of expected engagement and then to airlift in the much lighter troops which will use the supplies.

1982 -
"The Jupiter Effect", first described by authors Dr. John R. Gribbin and Stephen H. Plagemann, in their book by that name, is to occur during this year. They determined that once in every 179 years all of the lanets of the Earth's solar system would become aligned in a straight line perpendicular to the Sun. This alignment was expected to result in greater than usual storms of activity on the surface of the Sun. Increases in earthquake frequency and changes in the Earth's climate were also expected. The expected increased atmospheric drag on the Earth was expected to slightly slow the Earth's rotation on its axis and increase the strain on geological faults according to changes in the Earth's momentum. Some scientists were reported as stating that because nations had constructed water dams over fault lines, the additional surface weighting of those areas would magnify the shock of any earthquakes in such regions. While this could happen, the timing of the earthquake could also be rationalized as being delayed by the additional pressure. Other catastrophic side-effects suggested included floods - caused by broken dams, and, nuclear power plant meltdown - as a result of malfunctioning facilities built on or near responding fracture zones.

The 1970's became a decade in which the number of disastrous quakes recorded in human history reached its highest. It also represented the decade with the greatest amount of international communication, surveillance, and acknowledgement of earthquakes in human recorded history.

1982 - By September, ???
Soviet space station Salyut 7 is launched.
Robot supply ships, sophisticated docking nodes for linking incoming ships and additional living modules plus escape vehicles for cosmonauts on board are indicative of the sophistication. Anatoly Berezovy stays for 7 months.

1982 - By September,
The concept of "Sovereign Risk" was defined when Mexico defaulted on its loans to foreign banks and was threatening to declare bankruptcy. It was unable to make adequate interest payments on its national debt such that the principal was growing. The "Group of 10" confirmed the norm, in their favour, that a sovereign country was not allowed to go bankrupt. [Humans tend to make up the rules as they go along such that the powerful are protected from taking responsibility for their own errors - leaving those who have been exploited to feel that they should be grateful to those who "rescue" them from disaster into misery.] Had Mexico been allowed to eliminate its debt, major banks in Canada and the USA would have faced bankruptcy. In addition, Brazil and several other nations would have been encouraged to follow the example of Mexico. World banking was threatened with the potential of anarchy.

"The Group of Ten" worked jointly with the "International bank for Reconstruction and Development" (the World Bank) and the "International Monetary Fund" (IMF) to find ways to restructure loan payment terms and reduce the external debt burden of less developed (capitalized) nations. Among the options considered were debt and equity swaps, government guarantees of principal and/or interest repayments, and partial write-off of nonperforming loans by creditor banks. In 1989 - after 7 years of anxiety, preparation and negotiation - Mexico's banks agreed to a debt restructuring plan, assisted by $5.5 Billion in financial aid from the World Bank and the IMF, that would guarantee payment of principal and interest on Mexico's external debt.

1982 - By September,
The USA Defense Mobilization Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), would be led by George Bush, former CIA Director.
He would continue to lead it until 1988.
It was a secret government organization which would spend over $3 billion upgrading command, control, and communications in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA) 's Continuity of Government (COG) infrastructures. Ostensibly created to assure government functioning during war, especially nuclear war, the DMPSA would be so secret that even many members of the Pentagon would be unaware of its existence and most of its work would be done without congressional oversight. That is, this is one example in which the American taxpayer spent over $3 billion in order to have a power structure created which could enforce a suspension of civil liberties and property ownership - a power structure which the American legislature never voted acceptance of nor knew anything about until it was in place!

The DMPSA was sometimes called "Project 908".
Both the parent FEMA and the DMPSA would become subject to investigations for mismanagement and contract irregularities in addition to scandals that their emergency planning provided a distinctly dictatorial political capacity to be provided to the President. Project 908 made it possible for an American President to declare a state of National Emergency and then declare and activate martial rule over all of the USA.

1982 - By September,
The Teresa II site gold bullion was on the market.
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and their associates had recovered a stash of gold, in volume, 80 feet by 240 feet by 8 feet, had remanufactured it, and the USA CIA was now helping move and market the gold. The world capital market was faltering and world banking was on the verge of collapse. Depositors had put a run on bank reserves by spending their account deposits or transferring them into real estate assets or non-bank securities. Bank reserves were very low and the risk of bank failures was growing worldwide. If the common people lost faith in the banks, currencies worldwide could become useless.

The USA Federal Reserve, the Swiss Banks, and Central (State) banks worldwide needed a dependable reserve fund source. Only 100% secure assets can be used as a reserve for international banking purposes. These reserves are held for the purpose of covering the losses sustained by loan defaults by bank clients and investment errors made by bank officers. The amount of this "risk" depends upon the degree to which the bank "invests" the depositor's and stockholder's monies into usury instruments such as mortgages, personal loans, inter-bank loans, venture capital pools and other destinations. Each of these opportunities holds a statistical risk, that is, a percentage of expected loss dependent upon past performance. The greater the bank's investment in high risk instruments, the greater the possibility of a loss, the greater the potential magnitude of the loss, and, the greater the contracted profit from the investment. A bank without reserves is a bank courting bankruptcy, or, is a bank without the power to invest and make a profit - which precipitates bankruptcy.

Besides capital deposits, bank shares, and federal government bonds issued by a major capitalist nation (like the USA), gold bullion, or its certificate equivalent, qualifies as "riskless" capital - requiring a minimum of reserves to support usury instruments from which the bank profits. Gold bullion is awkward to transport in quantity and certificates can be forged so a security system involving serial and confirmation numbers on gold and treasury securities had been implemented and globally accepted. To ensure that nations didn't simply "print money" by issuing certificates and giving them serial numbers, the International Chamber of Commerce (I.C.C.), the World Bank, and the World Court in Le Hague, mandated that certificates representing gold bullion or the debt obligations of a major nation, be traded through a non-bank purchaser in order to establish value, before being purchased by a bank.

Thus, if a gold certificate (debenture) representing gold bullion was purchased by an investor, it could be rationalized that the investor had purchased the rights to a real quantity of gold bullion, and, based on that market price, a bank could purchase it and place it in its reserves, as if it were gold bullion . Large capital investments were required from private sources in order to facilitate these transactions and maintaining confidentiality was imperative. Also, bureaucratic delays in the submission and processing of invoices and "payment" could result in substantial losses. With reserves being required desperately a system of discounts was set up whereby the private investor would receive a large profit for a short-term investment. The gold bullion holder would offer the certificate at a discount; the banks would buy them at face value. The private intermediary would receive a good profit.

In 24-hours, a private investor could gross a return of 10% on an investment of 100 million dollars or greater. In net terms, a portion of this profit would go to brokerage fees, bank charges and "referral" fees. Essentially, a certificate would become available on the market from a source which held gold bullion. In the space of one day, a transaction would be completed.

First, a certificate would be offered for sale, usually as a debenture drawn on a multinational corporation in whose possession the gold bullion was, for a discount of 10% or greater, due for surrender in a 10 year term.

Secondly, on the basis of cash collateral on deposit in a bank, a purchase request for the debenture would be issued by the private investor - who, hopefully, had confirmed that he had a bank purchaser.

Thirdly, ideally on the same day, the private investor - who had now technically purchased the debenture and received an invoice - would offer the debenture for sale to a central, Swiss, British or German major bank.

Fourthly, a bank would offer to purchase the certificate and pay the private investor, would receive an invoice, and, by telephone transfer, the monies would flow into the private investor's account.

At the end of the day, the private investor's bank would clear all credit and debits received for the day, posting the credits first. The credit from the bank purchaser would go into the private investors account and the gold certificate (debenture) would go to the bank. Then the debit (invoice) to the private investor's account would be extracted and sent to the bank in which the gold bullion source had offered the debenture for sale, and the transfer of ownership to the private investor, and then to the bank, would be confirmed.

If the paper transaction took longer than a day, then the cost of borrowing enough reserve funds to cover the "overdraft" would be applied to the private investor's account, and, the purchasing bank might withdraw its offer to purchase in order to maintain distance from what could now be an investor on the verge of financial difficulties. If the costs, possibly 100,000 dollars on a 100 million debenture could not be paid by the investor immediately, the investor could lose his whole 100 million to costs, and, incur further liabilities.

If additionally, the value of gold changed before the certificate was resold by the private investor, a greater loss might occur. If successful, which the transactions usually were, the private investor could be included in 3 to 10 trades per banking week depending upon market demand from the banks. Successful investors could multiply their monies every month. With Brazil, Mexico and other states talking about defaulting on multi-billion loans from USA banks, a temporary solution had been found: bolster the banks with private bullion reserves until the global economy improved.

1982 -
An expedition conducted by Herbert Sawinski, an explorer, diver, and chairman of the Museum of Science and Archaelogy in Fort Lauderdale, investigated submerged banks with land outcroppings at various locations between 23 degrees 50' and 23 degrees 30' N and 80 degrees 30' to 79 degrees 40' W. Extensive stone pavements were located and photographed at a depth of 25 feet, as well as distinct walls with vestiges of a pavement running along the top. The main wall continued for a quarter of a mile out to sea, where it suddenly disappeared into 2500 feet of water.

Part of the wall, or causeway, splits near the shore and continues under water partially along the coastline of the present remains of what was once a larger island now under the ocean. At another point on this submarine plateau the divers followed a passageway under submerged rocks and discovered a sunken quarry, complete with shaped blocks of stone still inside it. Investigation was hampered by heavy surface waves, low visibility, and strong underwater surges.

These and other discoveries have been found on an underwater plateau which is about 60 miles on each side of a lopsided triangle between the Straits of Florida and the Santaren and Nicholas channels. It breaks the surface only around the edges, roughly establishing the boundaries of what was once a large island. While there is no fresh water on the narrow land border, there are a number of freshwater springs in the ocean, just as there are in the Azores.

Within this area there are several large blue holes ... circular holes half a mile in diameter, going straight down to depths of 1000 feet although the sea bottom surrounding the holes is only several fathoms deep. These holes in the ocean compare to the large open wells at Chichen Itza, into which the Mayas used to throw jade, gold, and young women as sacrifices to the gods.

1982 -
A 1982 USAF review of biotechnology, concluded that "Electromagnetic Field Force"

(ELF) "has a number of potential military uses, including dealing with Terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches in security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare ... (such) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or disorientation. They are silent, and countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop."

1982 - In the fall,
Eduard Meier was in the bathroom in his farmhouse in Switzerland early in the morning when he slipped, hit his head, and suffered a severe concussion. Most of the experiences which he would have with the Pleiadians had passed. They structured their plans in 11 year cycles; this cycle would end in 1986. The "Meier experiment" would fail for the Pleiadians even as had those attempts which they had made before, the aim of which had been to try and attract humanity to a more spiritual lifestyle than they had chosen. The Pleiadians were not perfect; they never suggested that they were. What had they not been prepared for this time?

1. First, what had they done?

2. They had decided that, having approached, not that they wouldn't try again, political and military leaders to whom humans surrendered their will and their resources, only to have such leaders avoid their invitation to a more spiritual approach - they would now try for a grassroots approach. It was a long-shot, but, if human leaders would not make decisions positive to the future of humanity, maybe, if enough people wanted a more spiritual approach, the leaders would abide by the direction of those who gave them power.

3. They had invited a human to benefit from their guidance in return for that person continuing to be an open-minded, positive attitude individual who could experience awe at the wonders of the universe and share that awe honestly and generously with others.
   
   

4. They had guided Eduard into building personal power in the skills of energy consolidation and transfer including psychokinetics, as well as mind-focusing and spiritually strengthening exercises like meditation.

5. They had encouraged Eduard to have many normal experiences which exposed him to numerous cultures, numerous work positions, numerous career directions - all of which would contribute to either an expanded intellectual awareness, or, an increasingly narrow, compulsive and negative frame of reference. His positive attitude led to the former result.
   
   

6. When they believed that he was ready, they began to feed him evidence of their existence in the least threat-to-humanity mode. They encouraged and allowed him to take photographs, and later record the sounds of, their beamships. A "tutor" was assigned to him to educate him in Pleiadian concepts such that he would record them and share them with other humans.

7. It was believed that when other humans heard and saw the evidence that the Pleiadians had supplied, they would be curious enough to consider the possibility of spacebeings, to respect the advice of those obviously technically advanced beings and to seriously investigate the evidence.

The Result:

• While Meier eventually got into the pattern of travelling, working at many jobs and raising his self-esteem, this pattern together with the possibility of juvenile acts of rebelliousness to society, or, against the direction in which he was advised, received neither compassion nor acceptance from human adults in later adults. Persons of low self-esteem (most humans) judged him on how well he fit the acceptable norm of their social group. Time in jail for participating with a peer group, abandonment of a military indoctrination and lifestyle, consideration of more than one religious faith, a drifter away from and then back to his birth society - were all used as examples of why whatever he said could not be taken as the truth.

• Once Meier went public with his mounting evidence, he and his family were besieged by crowds mainly consisting of persons irresponsibly hoping to give direction of their life to an "authority"; persons intending to capitalize on the story or the evidence; persons with an intellectual death wish: God grant me the wish of proving that my curiosity is based on a lie, or, God, prove to me once again that there is nothing new for me to learn - only falsehoods to be proven! ALL of these approaches are the heredity of human authority-based educational systems. Children usually become what they are taught. The constant onslaught of such a negative living mass had its influence on Meier and his family. The only constructive response was to accept those who wished to stay and allow those who wanted to criticize to leave.

• Growing out of the authoritarian-based visitors was the approach taken by the mass media: dramatize, exaggerate, ridicule, idolize, destroy. The mass media never concentrated on the message, only on the man. But the man was NOT the message! While humans destroyed the message with petty gossip, thousands continued to die in wars, millions continued to be spent on armaments, thousands died from starvation and disease, the environment continued to deteriorate, a select group planned to abandon the Earth, and marriages and families crumbled. The spiritual normality which is part of the Pleiadian biological composition blinded them from the biological differences existing in humans which promote the non-spiritual. This factor would ultimately prevent any substantial organized grassroots true spiritual focus in humanity.

The Pleiadians were left with a humbling predicament.
Their ethics demanded no direct interference with or redirection of humanity.
They had attempted, as had other spacebeings, to encourage humanity to a more spiritual following by directing their communication to adopted and self-appointed human leaders as well as to grassroots volunteers. Other spacebeings had interfered directly several times to prevent annihilation of humanity by humans. Time-travel had indicated that humanity WOULD BE decimated. Could, or should, the Pleiadians make any further attempts?

1982 - During the fall,
The discovery of the "Human Immunodeficiency Virus" (HIV) is announced by both the "Pasteur Institute" in Paris, France, and, the National Cancer Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland state, USA. Scientists will call the resulting disease "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" (AIDS) because the virus weakens the human immune system and makes it difficult for it to repel other diseases.

HIV is spread by contact with the bodily fluids (stool, urine, blood, saliva) of the infected person and its presence can be quickly determined by either a blood or a saliva test (both are commonly in use by insurance companies by the late 1980s). Such transfers of fluids may occur during sexual activities, accidents, surgery, blood transfusions, multiply used hypodermic needles. The later will arise in frequency amongst groups addicted to illegal drugs and in poorly equipped clinics in poorer countries.

Once in the human body, the virus is carried by the blood through the body.
When either a helper T-cell or a macrophage cell is found, the virus invades it, replicates, and travels to other sites and organs. The AIDS virus appears to progress slowly, depending upon the systemic (spiritual, physical, emotional and psychological) health of the infected individual. Symptoms may never appear or could appear within a few weeks, months, or, many years. Typically, the HIV targets weakened susceptible cells and so may progress cell by cell.

Like many viruses, HIV remains inside a cell, as a parasite, and slowly feeds and duplicates itself.
Sometimes the host cell will die and hundreds of viruses become released into the blood and other body fluids. Some HIVs may be destroyed by a person's antibodies; others will rapidly spread the disease. Viruses are persistent and so is HIV. It just keeps going and going until it runs out of food, or, is forced into hibernation by antibodies or an adverse chemical environment. Viruses don't die, they just go into suspended animation.

An HIV infected person, in which the virus is making progress, begins to get uncommon diseases - which keep reoccurring. Eventually, the person's immune system is so distracted and weakened that they acquire too many diseases which are too severe, either singly or in combination, for them to continue to live. Viruses which cannot be fully accessed quickly by an effective antibody or efficient anti-viral medication, which acts to slow the replication of the virus, have the capacity to mutate and become resistant to any new medication within 6 to 12 months. Since the AIDS virus is in two places at once, such mutation is possible, and likely. Drugs capable of restricting T cell activity decrease the body's ability to defend itself against other diseases.

Restricting the activity of macrophages may lead to concentrations within certain organs while controlling or reducing the rate of spread. Thus, efforts to keep the infected person alive longer may provide them with symptoms of an escalating number of chronic diseases. Drugs being used by 1994 will include AZT, ddI, ddC, d4T, U-90-150. By then, 20 different vaccines will be in use in experimental testing. With the bureaucratic regulations now controlling the testing of vaccines, no "proven" vaccine will be produced before the strain being targeted has mutated. Trial testings may run as long as 15 years. A mutation can occur spontaneously in 6 months. Typically, the most promising, and cheaper remedies - herbs, meditation, visualization, sincere faith, Tai-Chi, prayer, accupuncture, ... would be left until last to try.

1982 - By October 1,
The Reagan Administration had revealed their opinions and intentions to their citizens:

Eugene Rostow, the President's officer in charge of disarmament had written:
"We are living in a prewar and not a post-war world."
When Rostow was head of the "Committee on the Present Danger", he said:
"There is no difference between the Soviets now and Hitler (in the 1930s), except that the Soviets are stronger."

When asked by a "Senate Foreign Relations Committee" if either superpower could survive a nuclear exchange, Rostow answered: "Japan, after all, not only survived but flourished after the nuclear attack."

When Senator Pell asked what sort of a world would survive, Rostow replied that there would be
"10 million (dead) on one side and a 100 million on the other, but that is not the whole population."

Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defence, presents spending plans to the President designed to have the USA "regain" nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union before 1990. It would later be revealed that inaccuracy of CIA and NSA statistics were the major contributors to the USSR advances.

Alexander Haig, Secretary of State, had met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to set a date for arms control negotiations, simply as a matter of public deception. Haig openly acknowledges that "The Soviets have made no headway with China and are forced to maintain 50 divisions on the Chinese border. The conquest of Afghanistan has proven to be neither cheap nor easy. They are pouring $200 million a day in aid into Hanoi to prop up the Vietnamese, who are themselves bogged down in Cambodia. The Soviet confront an impossible dilemma in Poland."

Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defence, admitted that "We have to be seen to be making an honest effort - and we will make an honest effort - in any negotiations (although) we are frankly pessimistic." The European Allies of the American had only accepted nuclear weapons within their borders on the basis that the American would conduct serious negotiations with the USSR about arms reductions.

Paul Nitze, former Navy Secretary, will be the chief negotiator at the arms limitation treaty talks. He has been a staunch anti-Soviet pro-nuclear war proponent since the late 1940's. Last May, Nitze noted that "there could be serious arms control negotiations, but only after we have built up our forces... (after) 10 years." In 1949, Nitze advocated "any measures, covert or overt, violent or non-violent, which serve the purposes of frustrating the Kremlin design." Nitze and most of the advisers follow the credo that your can only "negotiate" with an enemy when you are in a superior position to force him to do what you want!

Laurence Beilenson, retired lawyer and author, and mentor to President Reagan, believes that nuclear war with the Soviet Union is inevitable "because of their Leninism." He advocates that the USA prepare to fight and win a nuclear war.

George Bush, former director of the CIA and intelligence adviser to Reagan since 1976, has provided Reagan with an assessment of Soviet intentions and capability which encourages an approach of political deception (The Art of War). Reagan responded during the last presidential campaign by saying that he would not rule out a first strike attack against the USSR for doing so would make them more secure. It might also have lowered there state of paranoia and justifiable lack of trust.

The Committee on the Present Danger is a 150-member organization right-wing group of academics, intelligence professionals and political officials who generally believe that a nuclear war is survivable, inevitable, and acceptable. Reagan and 23 other members of his administration belong to the committee.

Richard Burt, a State Department official, believes that both sides will honour the terms of the SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) because nothing the Americans want to develop is mentioned in it. Heavy expenditure projects like the MX missile system and the B-1 bomber, now planned by the administration, escape restriction.

President Ronald Reagan himself seems to take all his cues from his advisers.
During his campaign, he threatened voters that if American military power wasn't substantially increased, "They (the Soviets) will be able to take us with a phone call." His rationale was that the Soviets could wipe out American Minuteman missiles with a first strike, then withstand a U.S. retaliation, and have enough missiles left over to destroy the American population. Rather than ordering the retaliation, Reagan was inferring that he would have to admit defeat on the phone rather than commit national suicide. This was the usual political deception and blackmail that has elected many modern political leaders.

Pentagon analysts state that the missiles of either side are not accurate enough to destroy a target as small as a Minuteman missile silo. Blasts from initial missiles would likely throw off incoming missiles. For a first strike to be successful, the missiles launched would have to be 90% successful; otherwise, the retaliatory strikes by the Minutemans would be too devastating for the Soviets to survive. The Reagan rationale also discounts the potential participation and successes of the nuclear-armed submarines and bombers. With these FACTS at hand, one is prompted to ask what the true intent of the weapons upgrading requested could mean.

One fact is that it would mean billions of dollars in additional defence contracts to American armaments industries maintaining the employment of hundreds of thousands of academicians and high technology workers with discreet kickbacks for supporting politicians and new more accurate destructive technology more capable of dictating political terms to the whole world. Almost any record of the Soviet geopolitical involvements over the past decade show them to be doing poorly. Many Senators believe it is incredulous that the Soviet leadership could be capable of believing that they could win a first strike victory against bomber, submarine and land-based nuclear missiles.

1982 -
American Defense Industry Contracts for the year worth more than $10,000 each, amounted to $116.7 billion dollars, up 19.3 billion from last year. All of the top ten industry contractors received sharp increases in the capital amount of their contracts in President Reagan's military buildup. The top 10 were:

   General Dynamics               Boeing

   McDonnell Douglas              Hughes Aircraft

   United Technologies            Rockwell International

   General Electric               Raytheon

   Lockheed                       Martin Marietta

Planes, missile systems and submarines were the higher expenditures.

Pentagon contracts to universities rose 20% in value to $852 million.

40 Institutes and colleges received between $2.3 and $235 million;
both Johns Hopkins University and M.I.T. received over $210 million.

Laser weapons, biowar products, and electronic pattern recognition for weapons targeting were among the university programs.

1982 - On October 23,
The New York Times reported "The United States has detonated more nuclear weapons this year than in any other year since 1970, although the Reagan administration says it is still committed to a comprehensive treaty to ban all such tests." As many as 3 detonations per day had been fired in the previous month. James Cannon, speaking for the Department of Energy, stated "Basically, we're trying to put more modern weapons into the stockpile and we're trying to make our weapons safer."

1982 - By November,
"Supply Side Economic theory" is being utilized by many capitalistic nations.
Popularized in the 1970s, it mandates that policy objectives for "growth" in the economy can be met through tax incentives encouraging businesses to make productive investments. Supply side economists emphasize the importance of tax cuts and tax credits which they argue stimulates the economy's overall production of goods and services to meet anticipated demand, encouraging suppliers to produce more, and individuals to earn more, as opposed to stimulating growth in consumer and business spending for goods and services. Will people work more because they can produce more? Further suggested is the idea that the economic stimulus produced will offset the tax losses from tax cuts and credits. With double-digit inflation, the theory now became politically popular.

Unfortunately, and frequently in an authoritarian system, the leadership make decisions which they believe should be advantageous for their subjects. These decisions are made, usually, on a rational basis, justified by some theory or assumption. The rational, perhaps bureaucratic and academic innovator assumes that the practical and emotionally minded production worker will respond as the planner believes he would if he were in their position. Often, in human bureaucracies, the planners have never experienced the reality of those for whom they plan and make decisions.

In a major economic intervention, for success, it is imperative that all of the participants understand what is being done for them, why it is being done, AND, what is expected from them for the new program to work. No one appeared to tell the American business owner why he was getting tax breaks and credits, or, he did not understand what was expected of him or her - greater investment in upgrading his business, expanding sales, or building inventory -, or, the investor was simply greedy and lacked confidence in the new government and policy. The tax credit resulted in lower tax revenues and most of the savings were invested into securities, spent to lower debt, or conserved to increase fallen profits. The result: the problems worsened.

1982 - By November,
The movie "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial" had been released.
Encouraged and assisted in its promotion through discrete financing, the movie is intended to portray GRAY spacepersons as friendly and lovable, despite their odd looks. It centres around a sentimental story about an emotional, immature GRAY which has crashed-landed on the Earth and seeks, with the aid of a group of human youngsters, to return to its home in the sky. It is part of a strategy for the revelation by the USA government that the GRAYs are on the Earth and want to work together with humanity. Within a few years the truth regarding the real intentions of the GRAYs will begin to prove obvious and the fact that the highest levels of political and cultural decisionmaking in the USA have unwittingly conspired with them against the common populous will present an apparent political emergency.

1982 - By November,
"The Missing Children's Assistance Act" is signed by USA President Reagan, after the usual lengthy journey of debate through Congress.
Although the FBI has maintained a computerized missing persons file since 1975, local police departments were not required to record the names of missing children with the FBI - so, the statistics available were unreliable and downplayed the prevalence of the phenomenon.

Under the missing children's act, parents could insist that the names of their missing sons or daughters be enetered into the federal computer databank, and increasing numbers did so. Between 1982 and 1985, the FBI received about 330,000 such reports each year. More than 90% of the children reported to police as missing were runaways who were found, or who returned home, within days.

In some cities, a mother who calls the police - out of overprotectedness, or, lack of adequate parental attention - raises the number of missing children numbers. Even if the child is discovered in 10 minutes sitting on a neighbour's lawn, it remains on record as a "missing child." If the same thing happens a few days or weeks later, with the same child, the number of children reported missing rises again. At any given time, there were, through the 1980s in the USA, about 30,000 children who had gone missing for longer than a few weeks. Of these, FBI agents say they believe that 95% are teenagers who have run away from home, in many cases to escape sexual abuse, or "throwaways" who have been kicked out by their parents. This points out serious chronic spiritual ills within the society.

Nearly all the rest are believed to have been taken by one parent from another in a custody dispute, which leaves room for a very small number who have actually been abducted by strangers; almost none of those abducted by spaceperson cultures are held for longer than a few hours of interviewing and/or experimentation before being returned - usually without their being missed. The National Child Safety Council, would know of no more than 100 children who had been kidnapped by 1985; the FBI would have opened investigations of only 68 of those: persons that met the strict federal criteria for possible kidnapping. Even if that number were to be multiplied ten fold, it would barely reach 50% of the number of children who die each year in accidental drownings.

The media in its capacity to sensationalize and magnify reality would promote the public belief that ALL missing children were abducted by pedophiles. Both naive, oversensitive and highly reactive persons and persons of low self-esteem or carrying a sense of guilt over the loss of their own child, would create "Child-Find" styles of organizations whose major activity would result in the raising of mass hysteria and intolerance. By 1988, such monumental efforts to track down missing children would not as yet have led to the recovery of a single child abducted by a stranger. Morbid fears and unnecessary defensiveness in children would be a result of such promotions. Psychologist Lee Salk would reveal that children were becoming increasingly terrified by all the warnings about evil strangers to the point where "they are going to be afraid to talk to strangers," and will refuse to leave home. His major concern: "How can they make friends?"

Another result of this negative spiritual approach to family breakdown was the actualy stimulation of opportunities for pedophiles and potential pedophiles to gain access to the children of parents most protective of their children. Such overpossessive self-centred parents, rather than learn and teach constructive communication and coping skills to their offspring, frequently stunted the spiritual strength of their child by modelling behaviours of fear, distrust, alienation, emotional over-reaction and emotional deadening, and, denial. Continuing to periodically and frequently abandon their children in order to pursue more material aims, the parents would rely increasingly on the services of childcare workers. Often, as an extension of their own bereft parenting skills, such parents would assume that almost anyone of any age would be capable of effectively and constructively caring for their children. A denial of the reality of the declining respect for authority based upon age by the younger generations in North America, most parents would assume that temporary childcare workers would respect the rights of the children in their care and respect the requests and guidance of their "employer." Increasingly, this would prove wrong - with resulting great trauma for the youngster who received abuse.

1982 - On December 14,
The origins of the "National Coordinating Center" grow out of secret discussions held by USA Department of Defense, White House staff and communications industry executives. The meetings, over the next 3 years, will be held at the White House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters at Offutt AFB in Nebraska, and at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs. The industry officials attending constituted the "National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee" (NSTAC), called "N-stack", set up by President Reagan to address the potential for the telecommunications industry to be compromised by an enemy state or group. It was at these meetings that the concept of a communications watch center for national emergencies - the NCC (National Coordinating Center) was introduced.

Since 1934, American presidents have possessed the authority to take control of any communications facility that it is believed is "essential to the national defense." Set out in the Communications Act of 1934 in Section 606, the authority is referred to as a "606 emergency" by government insiders. The concept of the NCC was to finally institutionalize and organize that authority for widespread and complete activation on short notice whenever it was deemed necessary. Control can be deceptive in its application. One does not physically have to take possession of the facility and place substitute personnel in front of the broadcast switches. The THREAT of such complete control together with the authority of the Executive Office, the President, would often be adequate to the receiving of the full cooperation of the staff on duty. A small number of officers with the authoritative documentation, real or fake, together with a preplanned scenario of what was to be broadcast could alter the reality for a whole nation which had grown to depend on the mass media for its point of reference. This is the crucial difference between a nation which has made a physical medium its god and a nation which has made the Holy Spirit its God: the former can easily be deceived and manipulated; the latter cannot.

Along with the concept of the National Coordinating Center were presented a wide set of plans that would allow the USA military to take control of all commercial communications "assets" - everything from ground stations and satellite dishes to fiberoptic cables, countrywide. In most every military coup in modern human history, control of the media has been the key to success. In some instances, control of little more than the nation's major radio and television station has resulted in success. In the USA, where the public tend to place complete credibility within the mass media, with the expectation that the context of reality will be translated for them by the announcers and program introductions - control of the mass media is equal to control of the minds of the majority of the populace.

1982 -
Scientists in The U.S.A., Canada, Britain, France, and Japan consider dumping nuclear waste into ocean sites in order to lessen the health hazards of land-based temporary holding sites near nuclear reactors and on government military reserves. In the U.S.A. alone, it is estimated that there are 6,000 tons of spent reactor fuel, termed high-level wastes because they contain radioactive isotopes that remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years. Low level wastes, such as gloves of reactor workers - are already being dumped into the ocean in drums off the shores of the U.S.A., Japan, Britain, and the U.S.S.R.. Locations receiving the greatest attention as potential future burial sites include the Hatteras Abyssal Plain between Bermuda and Cuba, in the Atlantic Ocean and the Shatsky Rise, east of Japan in the Pacific Ocean.

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Memory Stimulators.
1983 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

Risky Business; The Outsiders; Heart Like A Wheel; Superman 3; Yentl; Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence; Porky's II: The Next Day; The Osterman Weekend; Amityville III: The Demon; Staying Alive; The Dead Zone; Baby, It's You; A Killer in the Family; Testament; D.C. Cab; Breathless; Siege; Strange Brew; Right of Way; Exposed; Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp; Rumble Fish; Hanna K; The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd; Never Say Never Again; Yellowbeard

General News:

Consumer Price Index: 298.4

An underground FEDERATION base is established at the U.S. Navy base on Catalina Island, California, U.S.A.

1983 - By this year,
NORAD could track objects as small as 10 cm up to 400 km in altitude above the Earth and as small as 30 cm in the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO). Objects of only 1 mm travelling at a relative speed of 10 km/sec can penetrate most satellites. According to the USA Congressional Research Service, there was by this date an estimated population of up to 10,000 objects of human space debris too small to be tracked at altitudes of 500 - 1100 km. with a maximum density at the 850 km level. GEO satellites are usually raised to the 850 km orbit at the end of their 2 to 10 year operational lives where the expected orbital life is more than a million years before re-entry.

1983 - By this year,
Liberation Theologians (Christian) had put this question:

When does the sociopolitical situation of a country become so oppressive and intolerable to human values that armed resistance or armed revolution becomes not only an option, but a duty?

Put another way:

Does not the Gospel premise of human liberation, freedom as a child of God, and the right to hope in the future carry with it a right to resist the inhuman, the demonic, and the enslaving? Should not the Gospel applied to a concrete situation permit or demand resistance if all other avenues are closed?

1983 - In January,
The Super NOW (Negotiable Order of Withdrawal) Account was authorized for use in American banking institutions.
Super NOWs have no interest rate ceilings, but a 7-day withdrawal notice may apply.
In addition, they have unlimited deposit and withdrawal capability, but are available only to depositors eligible for NOW accounts, excluding for-profit business.

NOW accounts began in Massachusetts state in 1974 when mutual savings banks offered interest bearing transaction accounts (NOWs) to compete with commercial banks. These accounts were authorized nationwide for all depository institutions by the 1980 Monetary Control Act. The Super NOW combines the features of the NOW account with those of a Money Market Deposit account. The advent of this relatively complex-to-administer account reflects the degree of competition within the banking industry for depositor cash. High competition in a capitalistic economy often arises from one of several factors:

1. The product of service has been shown to be highly attractive to consumers,

2. Sufficient availability is too high (resulting in a fragmented market);

3. Providers are committed to the product through overstocking/overproduction;

4. There is insufficient alternative opportunities for marketers to switch to.

In the banking industry, the Super-NOW was attractive to a minority of consumers; availability of products for short-term cash investment was high; the banks were "overstocked" with a lack of cash-on-deposit; and, every other alternative had been utilized as developed for the purpose of "reclaiming" depositor cash. If depositor cash could not be increased, bank reserves would have to be in order to meet the new guidelines, or bank profits and safety would fall.

1983 - In late January,
President Reagan's new Defense Proposal was outlined:

..outlays of $238.6 billion for the fiscal year starting October 1, - a 1-year leap of 14% and 10% after inflation. No cuts can be made, said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, without "endangering the security of the United States."

After a poor demonstration of troop and equipment readiness for combat in 1980, the nation's 2.1 million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are considered by their officers to be fully prepared. Hefty pay hikes, enhanced military prestige and high civilian unemployment have combined to increase the number of volunteers. Troop quality, in terms of institutional educational patterning - numbers of new recruits with high-school diplomas, has increased from 68% to 86%. Higher degrees of patterning has reportedly provided better discipline. Desertion, absences without leave, drug abuse and alcoholism all are at the lowest levels since 1968. Of course, Americans are now out of the Vietnam conflict and not actively involved in combat anywhere else.

Re-enlistments are at the highest levels in history - 68% of those eligible.
With the non-military economy experiencing high unemployment, the departing soldier is unlikely to get a job with a comparable income after expenses. Even so, some segments of the military are high in vacancies. "E Company" of the Army's 724th Maintenance Battalion is supposed to have 7 missile-repair sergeants. It has one.

Sea Power is expected to rise.
The USA fleet now stands at 514 vessels.
By the end of the year the Navy is expected to have added 4 attack submarines, 1 destroyer, 11 guided-missile frigates and 1 refurbished aircraft carrier. The Reagan budget calls for 23 new ships, 320 F-15, F-16 and F-14 fighter planes and 720 more Abrams tanks. While 15 new aircraft carriers are planned, the Pentagon declares that 22 are required to cover commitments.

The Army's new Blackhawk helicopter in ordered in large numbers and is expected to fly twice as many soldiers twice as fast to locations than the helicopter it is replacing. In view of readiness deficiencies demonstrated in tests during 1980, $12 billion has already gone towards improving combat capabilities. Simulated desert warfare at the Fort Irwin base in California, is expected to prepare the forces for combat engagements in the Middle East. Since 1980, spending for spare parts has increased by 123%.

Shortages outlined suggest a direction intended for American foreign policy.
An acclaimed shortage of cargo aircraft and ships needed to cary USA-based soldiers and their heavy equipment across an ocean to a war zone and the fact that the Pentagon has stationed 16 ships near the Persian Gulf, with supplies for a 12,000-member Marine force in battle for 30 days, betrays a growing concern for the region. In addition, the Navy is converting 8 fast cargo ships for military use and more airlifters are being built. Bullets, munitions, fuel and other war-reserve stocks necessary to keep a fighting force in combat are declared as currently insufficient. The political consequences of the military-industrial preferences against those of the consumer-industrial preferences results in the heavy employment dependent high-tech high-cost weapons systems being encouraged at the expense of the practical, lower-cost parts and supplies expenditures.

Non-defense aspects of the Reagan Budget include the following:

   1. Support subsidies for farmers are to be halved from $18 billion to 9;

   2. Education loan budget is to be cut by $883 million & a means test added;

   3. Interest on public debt is expected to increase to $144 billion;

   4. Public debt is projected to increase by 16% over previous year;

   5. Energy development funds are proposed to be cut by 27%;

   6. Pollution control, conservation and land management: cut 19%;

   7. Highway outlays are intended to be raised by $12 billion;

   8. Airport funding is budgeted to increase by 17%;

   9. Contribution to International Development Banks (IDBs) to increase by 10.4% to $1.4 billion.

In addition, White House expenses were proposed to rise by 8.6%, 3.2% greater than the overall budget increase. If what is being increased is considered high priority and what is being decreased is considered low priority what do we have? -

The Reagan administration believes that increased military strength is very important in spite of an armaments stockpiling and development plan that has been consistent for over 40 years. How much killpower would be enough? Who are the Americans getting ready to attack?

The Reagan administration believes that better roads and airports are more important than fewer starving Americans and better skilled citizens. Transportation is paramount to dependability of commerce and to facilitate its expansion. It is also very important in times of civil unrest and for battlefield strategy. Will increased access benefit the economy, or benefit invasion or defense?

The Reagan administration is willing to reduce energy exploration and development at a time when American energy reserves are diminishing and American dependence on foreign oil supplies is increasing. Does it have a "guaranteed" source that hasn't yet been identified?

The Reagan administration considers national defense, national land and air access and increased bureaucracy to be crucial at a time when the public are jeopardized by a weakened food source, a weakened energy source, reduction in skill training, unemployment and increasing taxes! Quality of Life has always been a matter of priorities and choices for humans. If humans don't like what they keep prescribing for themselves, why can't they change the recipe?

1983 - In the February 14 "U.S. News & World Report",
Robin Knight, reporting from Rome, wrote .. "The Desperate Straits of Black Africa."
The following is an excerpt:

"Nigeria's mass expulsion of more than 2 million alien workers underscores the economic crisis that is ravaging black-ruled nations of Africa and setting the stage for an explosion of unrest. ...

Faced with rising unemployment, a recession triggered by the worldwide oil glut and falling oil prices, (President Shehu) Shagari (of Nigeria) ordered well above 2 million West Africans who have been working illegally (and cheaply) in Nigeria to get out of the country. At least 1 million are from Ghana and about 700,000 from Chad.

By the February 1 deadline, hundreds of thousands of refugees had fled Nigeria by foot, truck, ship and airplane. Hundreds of thousands more were trying desperately to leave to avoid arrest by Nigerian police. Dozens of Ghanaians were said to have died on the 300-mile trek from Nigeria across Benin and Togo to their homeland. ...

Since 1980, there have been coups in three African countries - Ghana, Liberia and Upper Volta - touched off by economic discontent. In the past year, there have been food riots in Sudan, Malawi and Madagascar. Tanzania is on the brink of bankruptcy. Even such 'Success stories' as Kenya and the Ivory Coast are battling economic ills. ...

The worldwide recession worsens the difficulties.
Many states that won independence in relatively prosperous times after World War II lack the institutions or skills to cope with intractable, seemingly permanent problems. The World Bank recently cataloged some of them - corruption, inefficiency, excessive government spending, overvalued currencies and neglect of agriculture.

By far the most pressing concern is the continent's foreign debt, currently topping 60 billion dollars and way out of proportion to what African states take in from abroad. Foreign earnings in 1981 totaled some 28 billion dollars, a drop of 1 billion from 1980.

One of the big reasons for declining foreign income is the plummeting prices of commodities, now at their lowest point in 30 years in real terms. For a continent almost totally dependent on sales of cocoa, copper, coffee, diamonds and similar resources, the drop in prices spells disaster. ...

Adding still more red ink to balance sheet is the fact that young African states have been heavy borrowers for years. Poor at the time of independence and anxious to carry out ambitious development programs, most African nations readily accepted large loans from the (industrially) developed nations in the 1970s. Now, just paying the interest is a burden. ...

Looming deficits already have forced Sudan, Malawi, Zaire, Zambia and other nations to work out new debt-repayment schedules with such institutions as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At least six others, including Ghana, are engaged in similar negotiations. More are certain to do so later. ...

Nigeria is cutting spending and imports as a result of low petroleum prices.
Even so, it must try to borrow 4.5 billion dollars in 1983 for capital expenditures.
Lagos will need an additional 2 billion to cover its trade deficit. ...."

Several points should be noted here:

   a) No concern or programs for population control are mentioned;
   b) Former colonies seek the material standards of their colonizers;
   c) Corruption and debt are endemic and founded slavery earlier;
   d) Agriculture, necessary to feed a dense culture, has been neglected;
   e) Major economic base now is provision of luxury resources to others;
   f) Dependency and reliance on export markets has weakened self-reliance;
   g) Exploitation of cheap (slave-like) labour led to further weakness;
   h) Lack of population control has contributed to forced expulsions;
   i) Excessive government bureaucracy has encouraged capital dependency;
   j) Foreign lenders have irresponsibly lent for immediate profit only.

1983 - During March,
The "Strategic Defence Initiative" (SDI) was announced by USA President Ronald Reagan.
He explained that by building the system and later sharing it with the USSR, the threat of nuclear war could be neutralized. The fundamental question remains: If the USSR could trust the USA and USA-developed and produced hardware to protect both the USA and the USSR equally well, why would there have been a need for the Cold War of armaments stockpiling which has continued for 30 years? So what is the true reason?

1983 - Beginning this year,
The Demand for Sunscreen Products will rise by an average of 10% during the next 5 years to a market of US $390 million by 1988. During the previous 45 years, the appearance of a suntan has evolved in status from the mark of a labourer to a symbol of the leisure class and the beautiful. The increasing evidence made available to the public from this point on that exposure to the Sun can be detrimental to the skin will result in more care being taken to preserve it. In a few years time, the American Cancer Society will run campaigns with slogans such as "Fry Now, Pay Later!"

1983 - In May,
A 6.3+ Magnitude Earthquake at Coalinga, California, U.S.A., originates from a "Hidden Reverse Fault" and results in extensive damage. A "blind thrust fault" midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles was identified as the source of the 2 foot uplift at the time. 75% of the buildings in the town were demolished and the earth's surface remained unbroken. Scientists are confused and surprised by the location of the quake and the degree of damage from a moderate sized quake.

1983 -
Dr. S. Nordstrom and his colleagues at the University of Umea, Sweden, reported that men who worked in high-voltage electric switchyards fathered a significantly higher number of congenitally malformed children than would be expected. Examination of the chromosomal pattern of the white cells (lymphocytes) in the peripheral blood of similar workers, and found a significant increase in Chromosomal abnormalities over the normal. The exposure to the electric-power frequency fields (50 Hz in Europe) produced abnormalities in chromosomes of the sperm of the switchyard workers.

1983 -
To fool the Kremlin, the USA Defense Secretary, Weinberger, is accused of lying to the American people re the ALCM-B.

1983 -
A program begun in 1982 to build 5 nuclear power plants in Washington State, U.S.A. has resulted in cancellations after billions of dollars were spent. Two unfinished nuclear power plants near the west coast of the state, near the capital of Olympia were closed when massive cost overruns and inaccurate energy demand forecasts threatened to leave the largest bond default in U.S.A. history. The builder of the 2 plants, "Washington Public Power Supply System" (WPPSS), failed this month to meet a $15.6 million monthly interest payment that was due on $2.25 billion worth of bonds that had been issued to finance the 2 plants. Electricity bills have tripled in five years. Following a study 10 years ago, when annual increases in demand were estimated at 7%, the agency planned to build the 5 reactors, 3 in the eastern desert of the state. Costs soared from the initial estimate of $4.1 billion to $23.8 billion in 1981. An economic recession hit the area 17 months ago, contributing to the problem.

The state is suspected of harbouring a long established alien underground base in the Shasta mountain area. If correct, such a base is also suspected of being a terminus in the underground tunnel system connecting other bases across the country. Washington State has long been a site of UFO reports. Nuclear storage areas, including nuclear power stations, have long been focal points for UFO activity and missing uranium supplies have been detected at some sites following the sightings. Were humans manipulated to build "supply" sites for existing alien bases?

1983 - On June 13,
U.S.A. Pioneer 10 space probe, after 11 years of travel at 30,00 mph (50,000 kph) went beyond Neptune's orbit, at that time a little farther away than Pluto.

1983 - By August,
Anti-crime crackdowns in China had begun, yielding a supply of prisoners who would become organ donors, many of whom would not be asked for consent. Over the next decade tens of thousands of organ transplants would be made. As early as the day before their execution some prisoners would have their kidneys removed. Other executions would be purposely botched in order to retain the donor until a recipient could be found. Many would find that medical personnel had arrived before their execution and were simply waiting until the announcement of death to remove the organs. The process would become public in August, 1994.

1983 - During 1983,
The planet "Lucifer" is described in the book "The Principles of Ultra Relativity" authored by Shinichi Seike.
He writes:

"There are many small planets, called Asteroid, between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter. Most of them are smaller than even ordinary satellites, and some of them are not spherical. ... More than 1,600 are found. There will be more than 50,000, including the smallest which is now undiscovered. They will be the ruins of one more mother planet which was decayed in the ancient Era. It has been called "Lucifer" by some astronomers. We shall study specifications of that marvellous planet in this chapter. It is situated on the fifth orbit. .... mass of Mars and that of Lucifer are supposed equal ... thus ... total mass of Asteroid ... only 0.06 per cent of mass remains when decayed. The other mass was decayed into Gamma ray and so on. ... There was an astounding explosion. ... The size of Lucifer was about identical with that of the Earth."

[The text is the English published translation accompanying the original Japanese and the emphases are those of the author.}

This work scientifically proposes the existence of a planet which at a time early to or predating recorded human history, exploded, with a conversion of mass into gamma rays as well as a dispersal of larger pieces into the surrounding universe. Those pieces not converted into energy waves, gases, or meteors, were captured in the gravitational force of the field of the original planet: a mere .06% of the original mass.

According to spaceperson sources, this event took place 3.7 million years ago.
At that time Mars was further away from the Sun than Earth, yet in the same orbit plane such that when they passed each other they exerted considerable attraction stress on each other. This exerted considerably elevated change ratios in each planet's development relative to that of others in this solar system. Another planet, which I agree to call Lucifer, travelled in a path not on the same plane as the Earth and Mars such that the 3 only came close together once every 800 million years. On this occasion, at one-tenth the mass of the Earth and moving at 32 times the speed, ricocheted off Mars, launching Mars into a new orbit further away from the Earth and tearing off debris which settled with the fragments of Mars into an Asteroid orbit. These activities led to a stabilization of both Earth and Mars relative to the massive changes undergone before. These new orbits reduced the expansion and development of life on Mars, as we know it on Earth, and increased the expansion on the latter. The theory mentioned in Seike's work, while analytically possible, is not true to fact and lies within the limiting expectations of 20th century scientists.

1983 - During the year
A Walk-In answered the question:
What is the change from Piscean age to the Aquarian age ?

(162) ... souls from other planets have always been present here, but he asserts that until recently the mass consciousness of the human race was so dense and matter-bound that we could not contact them. "Now many souls from other stars and planets are able to incarnate here and to experience the vibrations of earth, because the earth is passing through a higher electro-spiritual field known as the Aquarian constellation. It is due to this higher influx of light vibration that we are even able to understand the fact of NC273." ... "These increased vibrations are also causing all the matter-bound souls who are not able to glimpse beyond the veil of sense perceptions to go a little crazy. This is because all of these new energies are out of 'sync' with the lower sense-mad mind. That is why the pole shift will come to liberate them from this plane and to liberate the spiritually minded from them."

"When a cold-water fish is placed in warm water it will die.
The Piscean age through which we have been passing since the time of Christ is a water sign, symbolic of cold water; yet the Aquarian age deals with electromagnetic waves of higher vibrations and of the higher vibration of water, which is steam. Aquarius is a gaseous or air sign, so all souls acclimated only to liquid water cannot survive in the higher, more spiritual electromagnetic waters of truth. We are transcending an octave in consciousness, and only one out of twenty-five souls now incarnated on this planet will be able to stand these higher vibrations. The space visitors are naturally acclimated to the higher vibration of the Christ Consciousness and are here to help usher mankind into a new golden age, dedicated to the worship of our One Father through all aspects of life."

... the earth is now in the portion of its 24,000 year orbit in which it is moving closer to the galactic centre, or seat of God. "The galactic centre is the focal point of God's energy in this galaxy as it is the magnetic point around which the central suns rotate, and is the most powerful source of energy in our system. Thus the vibrations of the atomic structure are increasing, and with this increased vibratory rate humanity as a whole is becoming increasingly more aware of the subtler states of matter like radio waves, X-rays, electromagnetic waves and the like. What this means is that humanity is becoming aware of the finer forces in nature, and thus is more able to comprehend the possibility of higher dimensional realities that in actuality are the homelands of the various extraterrestrial intelligences. As modern physics has proven, all life is vibration. As we grow spiritually we become conscious of an entire universe that transcends the limited realm of the five senses. It transcends duality, and everything in it is conscious.

1983 - During the year,
A civil war began in southern Sudan.
Over the next 3 years it would lead to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and would destroy the agricultural base in the vast and largely inaccessible interior. By 1986, relief officials would estimate that 500,000 displaced Sudanese were in the southern part of the country, having the largest refugee population in Africa. Early that year, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) - Christians and Animists fighting for southern autonomy in the Moslem-dominated country - would begin attacking convoys of donated food claiming that the supplies, intended for 2,000,000 starving in the south, was being seized by the Sudanese army.

In truth, the supplies were being seized by both military factions for their own use.
UN efforts to end the war, economic disaster and starvation would be largely ineffective.
Where people were saved from hunger by food shipments, further shipments would often be irregular resulting in the birth and starvation of even larger numbers of people than if nothing had been done. This human international political principle of taking half responsibility for the solution of problems is always destructive and increasingly common.

1983 - On July 24,
William Goodlett, a Walk-In living in Salem, Virginia, experienced the following events on another planet:

(131)
" and slowly through a mist, the scene appeared before me and I was suddenly there, seated in a low chair with high back. Two feet in front of me was a little low table with a cloth on it, along with two large wooden bowls, one containing mixed vegetables and the other small pieces of what tasted like yak meat. I was eating. So were about 20 other people, seated cross-legged on the floor at individual low tables in a circle around the room, which had a central fireplace pit like the other one, but this was not the same hogan I had sat in before."

Goodlett said that several months before his visitation he had taken erythromycin for a bronchial infection, and the medicine had destroyed his smell and taste buds. "but while I was sitting there eating, in this other body, it suddenly dawned on me that I was tasting the yak meat and I thought, Oh good, my taste has come back!

I was on the right of the doorway, and there were two older men, and a boy.
The rest were women and girls. We each had our own bowls of vegetables and meat, and we ate with wooden spoons about three times the size of our tablespoons. I saw no knives or forks, but some of the bowls had beautiful carved designs on them, and all of the tables had cloth covers. Several women were coming and going through the doorway, serving the food that they brought in from outside. I saw no drinking cups or glasses. We were all talking and laughing together in a language that was not English, but which I could readily understand. We were short, stocky people with fair skin and brown hair. On finishing the meal, one of the men shook hands with me, using both hands to say good-bye. I grabbed his right hand, as we do here when we shake hands; then he put his left hand on top of our clasped hands and I put my left hand on top of his, and we shook all four hands together.

Afterwards we all went outside, and saw about 50 women and girls standing among a large group of pony-dogs that were individually hitched to sleds with high sides. The pony-dogs, because that is what we called them in that other language, were about the size of miniature Shetland ponies, but they had split hooves like deer, and their heads were rather doglike, with long hair and drooping ears. The sleds were shaped something like an old-fashioned bathtub, but smaller, and their high curved runners were wide, like skiis. There was a kind of double harness on the animals, circled around the neck and lower around the chest behind their front legs. Each woman and girl had a long staff with streamers about 2 feet long and small tassels on the end, which they waved in front of the pony-dogs to start them off.

I was holding a long staff with blue streamers and leading the journey with one of the other men. We went slowly over the land, which was thickly covered with grasses from one to two feet high, over which the loaded sleds passed easily. There were as many ponies and sleds as there were people, and we did not move in a line, but were spread out as much as three city blocks apart. The sleds were piled high with bundles wrapped in cloth and tied, but were apparently light in weight, because the pony-dogs pulled them with little effort. We went over small rolling hills much like those in Missouri, and in some of the valleys were small spring branches, but shallow, and I saw no soil erosion. After a seemingly all-day trip I was tired when we came to a cluster of hogans, some in valleys and some in the hills, but all were empty. During the journey the sky was mostly overcast, but a gentle wind blew and the cool air smelled like lemons, as it did on the other planet that I've already told about.

Through occasional breaks in the clouds we could see above us another planet about three times as large as the moon, very green looking, and we could even see the clouds on it, too. This seemed to be an overnight rest stop, and we began partly to unload the sleds and unhitch the pony-dogs, who started to run and play like puppies, and eat the grasses. As I was carrying some bundles into the hogan that apparently was mine, a little girl who seemed about 12 years old said to me, "Where do you go father when you're not with us?" I laughed and said, "Come here, child. Now, when the clouds part, see our sister planet up there? I go to be with our other family there." Well, the first time I had been on this hogan planet, I knew that I had two families and ten children, but I didn't realize that one family was on a different planet. At this point I understood that we could go there instantly, by thinking and wanting to do so. That was teleportation, and I divided my time between the two planets which revolved around each other, and also around two stars, or suns. There was a double star system around which these two planets revolved, but the other stars, or suns, were farther away, so that we did not derive much heat from them.

All of the men on our hogan planet could teleport, and there were not many of them, but lots of women. Now my son came from one of the hogans, to show me his staff which was 8 feet long, with a bunch of long streamers and tassels that were used to flutter in front of the pony-dogs to direct them which way to go. They were not struck or guided, because we did not follow a path. My son had started the journey towards the back of the caravan, but had now caught up with us, and I want to describe what he was wearing. His clothes were made by sewing together strips of material, so that the pants were two long strips from the knees up over the shoulders and down to the knees in the back. Then two strips were sewn on each side from the knee up to the waist, with two short strips inside the legs to his crotch, an apron in the front and an apron in the back. He wore a wide leather belt and a little jacket made of strips sewn together, with detachable strips for sleeves, and a turbanlike cap of strips sewn in a circle, with an inserted flat top. He had high, knee-length boots, and the entire outfit was bright yellow, with boot tassels as decoration. ... Seemingly these people could only weave material in narrow strips 6 or 8 inches in width, and would then sew the strips together to make their cloth.

I took the staff and admired it, telling my son that it was very good because since it was slender and long he could hold it a long way in front of his pony-dog. These animals were very intelligent and easily understood our language. Then while I waved the staff, watching the streamers flutter, I awakened in my own body and immediately went downstairs to write down what I had seen. ... all of my senses are acutely functioning during these out-of-body experiences. ...

Certainly these beings whom I met had teleported themselves, and I'm convinced that I was teleported by wishing and repeatedly asking to visit other planets."

1983 - In September,
Panagiotis Takis (Taki) Veliotis and James Gillilard would be indicted by a USA grand jury for extorting $2.7 million from a now bankrupt "General Dynamics Corp." subcontractor. Veliotis, who had been president and general manager of Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., of Levis, Quebec Province, Canada, and his associate Gillilard had conspired with Gerald Lee, chairman of Frigitemp Corp., and George Davis, vice-president of Frigitemp to exchange money for subcontracts with General Dynamics worth many millions of dollars. General Dynamics was aware of the improprieties from the beginning and may have "rationalized" them as cultural differences between associates to be tolerated for a positive end result. General Dynamics covered up the bribes and kickbacks being built into the budgets as fraudulent consulting fees by grossly inflating invoices for the construction of more than 18 attack submarines for the US Navy as well as in other Pentagon contracts.

On November 16, George Veliotis, brother to Takis, a businessman in New Rochelle, N.Y., had been subpoenaed in a civil suit involving the General Dynamics Quincy shipyard, committed suicide. He got up that morning, went to the basement office in his home, wrote apologetic notes to his wife and daughter and a cheque to the funeral parlour, held a Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger. Some companies seeking to do business with Takis often found it expedient to send a little consulting work, or bribe, to George as well. George had been approached the day before by a person who told him that he was hired "to make sure that George didn't testify". George affirmed that he did not want his family to be drawn through a long court case nor for them to be made intimately aware of his unsavoury dealings only to see him go to jail. George asked the man to give him 24 hours to tidy up his affairs, the "subcontractor" would get paid, and the job would be "clean". Not wishing to risk harm to his family if they witnessed his murder, George carried out his own execution.

Earlier, in 1980, General Dynamics Corp. had come under intense pressure in Washington because of cost overruns on the submarine program. The 3-year probe by the USA Justice Department was eventually settled with the navy paying an extra $534 million to General Dynamics? If fraud had been verified, General Dynamics might have had to repay $1.5 billion to the American taxpayer. Many lawyers and other observers would believe that because of its singular relationship with the Pentagon - it is the sole supplier both of the F-16 jet fighter and the Trident nuclear submarine, General Dynamics is almost beyond indictment.

David Berger, counsel to bankruptcy trustee Lawson Bernstein, trustee for Frigitemp Corp. would remark:

"Suppose that these two powerful executives (Veliotis and Gilliland) were exposed as having forced illegal payoffs .... This would have brought on not only substantial and severe administrative action against (General Dynamics) by the United States of America, but possibly even termination of the billions of dollars of contracts."

Veliotis (Takis) and his associate Gilliland, had been hired in 1972 by General Dynamics from Davie Shipbuilding to manage the Quincy Shipyard. In 1980, Veliotis was given a seat on the board of directors. In 1981, Veliotis had been promoted from head of its Electric Boat division to executive vice-president. Veliotis had also acquired 70,000 shares of General Dynamics stock in the interim. By 1984, he had given depositions, as had Gilliland, Davis, General Dynamics and others, in return for releases from legal action by Frigitemp. When the Swiss bank accounts of Veliotis and Gilliland were found later, a civil suit was filed against both.

In the meantime, General Dynamics sued successfully to impound Veliotis' assets in Canada and the USA as part of an attempt to recover the funds that had allegedly been siphoned off. Those assets include his secluded $1 million, 22-room estate on 4.5 acres in Milton, Mass. (with 7 bathrooms, a swimming pool, tennis and squash courts), his GD shares, and a Florida condominium.

1983 - By September 23,
A Level 4 Biocontainment Accident had occurred at the U.S. Army Fort Detrick, Maryland, "Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases" facility. Two control monkeys, housed along with several Ebola-injected test animals, contracted the virus. Located away from the infected monkeys, the controls had no means of direct contact with the blood or contaminated body fluids of the test animals which had succumbed to the Ebola virus and bled out. Either the Ebola strain had mutated into an airborne form, or, the contaminated products had somehow travelled physically from the test animal cages to the control cages.

It had to be presumed later that when the animal caretakers had washed the cages down which had been soiled with contaminated biological fluids, the force and aeration quality of the spray had created an aerosol composition of some of the material - enough to allow several Ebola particles to be inhaled by the control monkeys on the other side of the room. Two weeks later, the 2 control monkeys developed Ebola symptoms: red eyes, bloody noses, failing organs. They died.

The elementary nature of the accident conveys the lack of awareness, knowledge and preparation indicative of the most highly funded efforts of humans to try and understand and find an antidote for highly contagious and fatal infectious diseases. Understanding can sometimes lead to prevention and effective treatment. Singular efforts at eradication or "killing" are sometimes worthless in effect, wasteful in lost research time to gain an understanding, and counterproductive by spreading or strengthening the strain.

1983 - On November 29,
Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, President and Chairman of the Board, Washington Institute of Technology, in a letter to William Sreinman, states persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John von Neuman and Dr. Vannevar Bush. He also thought that Robert Oppenheimer was involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT to remove them from his office.

1983 - In the December issue of "High Technology", Joseph Alper's article on "Better Weapons For Antibiotic Warfare" included the following:

"Some bacteria are so resilient and adaptive that they have developed bio-chemical immunity to antibiotics. In other cases, entirely new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria appear to have moved into the ecological niche vacated by susceptible species. Richard White, director of antibiotic research at Lederle Laboratories, in Pearl River, N.Y. said: 'We know the best we can do is to stay even with these creatures. To do this we will need a better understanding of how antibiotics work and the mechanisms by which bacteria develop resistance to them.'

Designing new antibiotics used to be little more than a brute-force search for anything that would kill bacteria, followed by mammoth synthesis programs to prepare thousands of analogs (molecules of similar structure), one of which might become the next penicillin. The search is now a finely tuned cross-disciplinary effort. Bacteriologists labor to unlock the mysteries of bacterial structure, growth, and reproduction, looking for weaknesses that could be exploited with the proper chemical. They use this information to develop very specific assay systems that greatly improve their chances of finding a new antibiotic. ...

The most important antibiotics by far, both clinically and commercially, are the Beta-lactams - penicillins, cephalosporins, and the new monobactams. They work by interfering with key enzymes in the bacterial cell, thus inhibiting the construction of the cell wall. ...

Early cephalosporins and penicillins were very effective at controlling aerobic bacteria - those that need oxygen to grow - and a group of organisms called Gram positive bacteria (after the name of a test method which identifies them). When the Beta-lactam antibiotics first appeared, the vast majority of serious infections were caused by these microbes.

But today the most serious infections - especially those that arise in hospitals - are caused by anaerobic species and by the more complex Gram negative bacteria. Resistant strains are a growing problem and can no longer be fought merely with larger doses of penicillin or cephalosporin. ...

... third-generation cephalosporins. These 'broad-spectrum' compounds have a wide range of bacterial activity and are much more resistant to Beta-lactamase than are most penicillins and earlier cephalosporins. They are also very expensive to produce. ...

William Craig, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School (Madison), says: 'Without a doubt, third-generation cephalosporins will solve some serious infection problems we now see in hospitals, but these would only be a small market. What we don't want to see is their use when other antibiotics can fill the need, because the next thing you know, we'll have bacteria that are resistant to these drugs.'

... 'These antibiotics can lead to very serious secondary infections, because they also kill beneficial microorganisms that help keep fungi, molds, and harmful bacteria from colonizing the intestine' says Richard B. Sykes, vice-president for biological research at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N.J. ....

Third-generation cephalosporin therapy is costly for two reasons. First, the drugs themselves are expensive, because they are difficult and time-consuming to make. Second, they must be given 3 or 4 times a day by injection - they cannot be taken orally, because their side chains are degraded by digestive enzymes - so patients must be kept hospitalized. ...

Paul Actor, director of natural products and pharmacological research (at SmithKline and French Laboratories in Philadelphia), used a biochemical trick to turn the patient's own blood stream into a drug reservoir. He reasoned that if the basic cephalosporin molecule could be modified to reversibly bind to blood proteins, then such a drug could be given in one large dose early in the day; slow release of the drug from the serum proteins would provide a constant level of the antibiotic in the blood stream. ...

A new family of antibiotics, the monobactams, was developed by Squibb to compete with third-generation cephalosporins ... much less expensive to produce and have better-defined ranges of antibacterial activity. ... screening various fungi for such a compound ... look at over a million soil bacteria ... found ... simple structures ... easy to synthesize from common amino acids ... could prepare monobactams that were active against specific classes of bacteria ... such as meningitis and pneumonia. ...

... the target enzyme is used to sabotage itself, and since the enzyme is found only in bacteria, ... no ill effects on humans. ...

Until 5 years ago, antiviral research was hampered by the need to grow viruses in animal cells. But with recent advances in tissue culture techniques, many of which have come from the biotechnology industry, this is no longer a problem. Today the primary task facing virologists is to find weaknesses in a virus's life cycle with which a drug could interfere, just as antibiotics interfere with certain bacterial processes. But with viruses this is a much more difficult task, because most of the enzymes they use during their lifetime belong to the human host. Thus many of the drugs that could kill a virus would prove toxic to humans.

Over the past 7 years, USA antibiotic sales increased 250%, totaling $1.6 billion in 1982 and projected to top $2 billion this year. Three antibiotic families - cephalosporins, penicillins, and aminoglycosides - together account for over 90% of the market. Cephalosporins, with a 20% annual growth rate, are the fastest growing segment, topping $700 million in sales in 1982. Half the antibiotics sold last year were injectables used in hospitals, and half were oral antibiotics prescribed for outpatients.

   Eli Lily (Indianapolis, Ind.)      38% of the market
   Pfizer (Groton, Conn.)              8%
   Upjohn (Kalamazoo, Mich.)           7%
   Merck (Rahway, N.J.)                7%
   Bristol Myers (New York)            6%
   Lederle (Pearl River, N.Y.)         5%
   Abbott Labs (North Chicago, Ill.)   5%
   SmithKline & French (Philadelphia)  4%
   Hoechst-Roussel (Somerville, N.J.)  3%
   Squibb (Princeton, N.J.)            3%

1983 - By December,
A "Charlie I Class" Soviet Submarine sank off the Kamchatka peninsula.
It was salvaged but never returned to service.

1983 - Beginning by the end of the year,
Coupon Fraud begins earning non-product users $10 - $30 million per year over the next 12 years.
Manufacturer's cents off coupons, used to attract new customers and retain current customers to their products, are removed from newspapers and other advertising media by coupon clipping houses backed by the defrauders. These are then submitted through cooperating stores and storefronts to the manufacturers for redemption. The stores receive the capital redeemed from the manufacturer and share it with the defrauder. No merchandise is purchased to support the use of the coupon. Average amount going to the defrauder is 90%. The defrauder pays the expense of the coupon clipping house, the overhead of their own front stores, deducts a portion for their own expenses - including visiting the various stores and co-opting new participants. The defrauders are usually sympathizers of terrorist groups, in particular, the PLO and Iranian groups. A "profit" of 50%, on average, goes to the terrorist groups.

The scheme would not be made public until 1995.
By then, one George Habash would have been known to have operated such a fraud for 10 years with a likely gross of $186 million. The coupons were submitted, at one point, through 700 storefronts in Florida state. A number of storefronts were specifically set up for the purpose of coupon submission; half the floor space was filled with empty shelving. Most of the net profit went to another George Habash, a PLO representative. This represented only one coupon fraud ring. Some were organized strictly for personal profit. In all cases, the cooperating storeowner was fully aware of the fact that they were participating in a fraud. Coupons were originally introduced by manufacturers to bribe the public into trying their product in situations where the manufacturer did not have confidence in factual or subliminal advertising being effective enough to produce the number of sales they wanted. Couponed North American products are usually marketed at higher-than-competitor prices and represent less nutritional or less efficient products than that of their competitor. Greed and lack of product comparison make the consumer the victim.

1983 -
A Neighbourhood Patrol Program begun in 1979 by the Flint, Michigan Police was being monitored by Dr. Bob Trojanowicz and his staff at the nearby Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice. Prior to the program, a police department of 310 had served the city of 155,000 residents - without any foot patrols. By 1985, 64 patrols would cover the entire city.

The program had originally been funded with a private grant from the "Charles Stewart Mott Foundation".
Note this. Bureaucracies and institutions secure their identity and their power by keeping the status quo unchanged, no matter how irrelevant. Change and innovation arise from the individual and and small private groups who are willing to take the risk of loss of their efforts and their resources in order to try and improve situations which they dislike. This fact of human organizational behaviour was repeated in 1982, when private funding ran out. The program had become so successful in the neighbourhood by then, that the citizens decided by a plebicite (still no political leadership), to pass a tax mileage increase to both continue regional coverage and extend the Program to cover the whole city. Even though unemployment was as high as 25% in Flint, in 1982, the public favoured the Program - at a cost of $60 per family per year.

At the beginning, the program consisted of 22 foot patrol officers working 14 beats, 15 hours each day (one hour overlap between shifts) and included about 20% of the city's population. Each beat covered a neighbourhood. The type of neighbourhood policing exemplified by the Flint program had the individual officer assigned to a specific neighbourhood. The geographic boundaries and populations would vary, according to whether it was business or residential in use, or, highrise or single family in style. Feedback from the residents was encouraged in the definition of neighbourhood boundaries because the police realized that natural geographic boundaries often cut through real neighbourhoods. Neat, linearly ordered theoretical structures rarely approximate reality.

The experiment meant that a neighbourhood officer provided all police services for the neighbourhood. Each neighbourhood was expected to provide its officer with an office, telephone and recorder and whatever furniture necessary. Residents were encouraged to use their neighbourhood office or telephone number for non-emergency calls. Messages could be left on the recorder and the officer's first task at the beginning of each shift was to answer these messages. Emergency calls were handled in the normal police manner.

While more findings would be made available in 1985, some of them are noted below.

"Between 1979-1982, total dispatched calls for service decreased by a staggering 43%. The researchers found that people often preferred to wait until "their" police officer could respond to their needs, even if it meant waiting a few days. In many cases, they were telephoning the neighbourhood office of their foot patrol officer and leaving a message on the recorder. When the officer did respond the matter was often then settled informally to the satisfaction of all concerned. Officers are encouraged to do this whenever possible.

Crime rates in the 14 beat areas between 1979-1982 decreased 9% while crime in the rest of Flint increased.

Residents in the foot patrol areas felt much safer in their homes and in the public than their fellow citizens in the rest of Flint.

Between 1980-1984, foot and mobile officers were asked about how safe they felt while going about their respective tasks. Remember almost all foot personnel were experienced mobil officers first. 87% of foot officers and only 41% of mobile officers felt very safe. Foot officers felt secure i the belief that most people in their areas would come to their assistance in an emergency while mobile officers believed few would. It seems that there is security in being familiar with one's surroundings.

The quantity and quality of the information flow between foot officers and citizens was much superior than between mobile officers and citizens. In fact, detectives were very quick to realize this fact even before research confirmed it and began pumping foot patrol officers for leads to cases they were working on.

People began to take a much greater interest in their neighbourhood and in crime prevention activities. They reported things to their neighbourhood officers they would never think of 'phoning in to headquarters'."

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Memory Stimulators.
1984 - HIGHLIGHTS:

Movies:

The Hotel New Hampshire; Access Code; The Terminator; Silkwood; Bolero; A Passage to India; Police Academy; The Never Ending Story; Mrs. Soffel; The Philadelphia Experiment; Heavenly Bodies; Top Secret; The Killing Fields; Police Academy; Tightrope; Tank; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Teachers; Streets of Fire; Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan of the Apes; The Razor's Edge; Children of the Corn; The Burning Bed; Beverly Hills Cop; Places in the Heart; Windy City; Unfinished Business; A Breed Apart; Bedroom Eyes; Dreamscope; Once Upon A Time in America; Romancing the Stone; Silkwood; Lassiter; Man Under Suspicion

General News:

Consumer Price Index: 311.1

Morgan, California experiences a 6.1 earthquake.

Underground FEDERATION bases are established at both Hutchinson, Kansas (USAF) and Datil, New Mexico.

1984 - Over the next decade,
The Human Genome Project will receive more than $780 million in official open funding to determine the physical structure attached to human genetics. The cloning of human anatomical parts will be a major emphasis.

1984 - On January 1,
The "National Coordinating Center" (NCC) formally opened after 3 years of planning and preparation.
It provided the American President with the structure by which all American mass media and telecommunications could be taken over and controlled should the President believe that a state of National Emergency had been reached.

Located in a nondescript yellow brick building within a maze of government buildings, apartment buildings and office towers in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Arlington, Virginia, the aging structure was surrounded by barbed-wire fence. The main building belonged to that of the Defense Communications Agency (DCA); its mission is to make sure that all of America's global military units can communicate with one another. On the second floor of the 4-storey building, the new National Coordinating Center was located. Operated by the Pentagon, it would remain unknown outside of a few industry and government officials for a few years. It was staffed by representatives of the nation's largest commercial communications companies - the so-called common carriers - including AT&T, MCI, GTE, COMSAT, and ITT. Officials from the State Department, the CIA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and a number of other federal agencies would always be present as well.

On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series of offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, and a combination safe. Known as "logo row" because each of the offices is occupied by an employee from one of the companies that staff the NCC, their corporate logos hang on the wall outside. Each employee is on permanent standby, ready to activate his company's system should the Pentagon require it. They are on call 24 hours a day and must wear pagers outside of the office. When on vacation, qualified personnel must of course replace them. The physical layout, in this manner, was similar to that of a nuclear submarine, which, when the signal alarm sounded, all hands rushed from their cubicles to their stations to activate their weapons as cued.

When the NCC received word from the President that he or she had called a state of National Emergency, the President would have the authority to further direct the NCC to take control of all American telecommunications, including satellite communications. During a "606 Emergency" the Pentagon could order the companies that participated in the NCC to turn over control of their satellite, fiberoptic, and land-line facilities to the government. This would effectively concentrate the direction and use of American mass media and the later developed use of satellite-directed space weapons within the control of a small number of persons. Once the tools are in place which are capable of motivating or destroying huge numbers of people, their control and use, in human history, has been a gamble between security and disaster depending upon accuracy of information (subject to misinformation and misunderstanding), dependability of the technology (subject to failure), and legitimacy of justification (subject to personal idiosyncrasies, cultural patterning, addictive behaviour reactions).

The NCC's Implementation Plan listed 4 phases of emergencies and how the center would respond to each.
The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which there would be little to do outside of a minor set of routine tasks and exercises. Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which the NCC locations are instructed to take over the center's functions. Phase 2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC locations are instructed to take over the center's function. Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in this phase whatever facility survives becomes the authoritative NCC. Little of this theory would be taken to practical reality. Only the GRAY spacebeing base at Dulse could be expected to survive such an attack - because it was unknown and because it was built to survive one. A Plan had been intellectualized by humans once again to rationalize actions which were being taken deceptively. The intellectualizations were based in fear, pride and ignorance of the capability of rationalization, obedience to authority, and fantasy.

Later in the year, the divestiture of AT&Ts monopoly over the telephone system, on which the Pentagon had become fairly dependent for communications, would lead to a still greater concern over the control of North American communications networks of all kinds. At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a Defense Department official offered the following explanation for the founding of the NCC: "We are looking at trying to make communications endurable for a protracted conflict (nuclear war)." Since the beginning of the Cold War in the early 1950s, the general military and political community had been encouraged and allowed to develop both an expectation and a paranoia about the inevitability of a nuclear war. In turn, these "leaders" had conditioned the general population to accept the inevitable and by breaking their spirit to such a hopeless expectation, depression had become the nationwide illness of humans in both the USSR and the USA. While so distracted, more influential individuals in the USA had sought to gradually centralize, control and direct the major conditioning influences of the culture: the mass media. The NCC and all of the other so-called defensive networks that were being constructed would have been disintegrated in the first nuclear barrage of such a war - so what could their practical purpose be? - a silent military coup - for whose leadership?

1984 - In February,
Argentine Democracy returned to power.
It would be discovered that the former military junta had authorized the illegal detention, torture, drugging, and murder of at least 30,000 civilians suspected of supporting terrorists or sympathizing with anti-government pro-democracy groups. The military would deny all. Before this time and consistently from 1976, the friends and relatives of victims had complained to government officials, local police, local priests, the Vatican, the United Nations, the OAS, Amnesty International. Only the latter had listened. Now, a Court of State Terrorism and the Church Ecclesiastes began to take action.

The government at first said that no one had been killed.
Then they announced that those which had been murdered had been buried in separate coffins.
Then it was found that the bodies of the buried victims had been cut up with hands, feet, fingers, ... being dispersed into the coffins of others so as to confuse or nullify later attempts at identification. Pictures and testimony regarding the remains of burned victims was submitted. Full-term pregnant women, male and female university students, social workers, and many others - made up the tally. Homes and apartments had been destroyed by grenades and complete blocks of houses in some small towns had been aerially bombed. It would take another 10 years before the truth became international news. Meanwhile, parents and friends would search for the graves of their son, daughter, brother or sister.

1984 -
In the USA, the "Deficit Reduction Act" made it necessary for investments with tax shelter provisions to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Comission. As such registration can be a costly procedure, this lessened the number of such investments offered and reduced the number of private placements of capital.

Private placement of capital removes capital from the banking system and reduces the degree of political control exerted on it. Tax sheltering investments further decrease the base of capital in the banking-government area of enterprise - reducing the prime assets of the banks involved, and, decreasing the tax base on which government assets (ie treasury bills) are dependent. Too much of a decrease in these areas aggravates the maintenance of reserve levels maintained in the banks. If the world capitalism base requires this degree of "fine-tuning", it suggests that the system is endangered.

1984 - During this year and earlier,
China sells arms to Iran and Iraq to raise money for other international purchases.
The Chinese supply their own troops in the Vietnam border with old weapons while newer and more advanced versions to foreign countries. When a controversy arises over the shipment of Chinese missiles to Iran, Yang Shangkun, vice-chairman of the Military Commission and foreign minister Deng Xioping meet. When Deng says, "We must stop selling these missiles and arms," Yang replies, "This business brings the Chinese Armed Forces $1.8 billion a year. So as soon as you give me that money, I'll stop."

1984 - During the year,
Yigal Amin, a Yemenite Israeli, completes his elementary school education at the orthodox Wolfson school (associated with the conservative Agudat Israel movement) and leaves home for 5 years of study at Hayishuv Hahadash, a Lithuanian ortodox high school north of Tel Aviv. He will be the only Yemenite student.

While there, Yigal will distinguish himself as a passionate student of the Torah, the first 5 books of the Old Testament. His teachers will remember him as very serious and obsessive in his devotion to studying. Fellow students would remember him as having a remarkable memory - with which he recounted the ancient Hebrew texts flawlessly. Yigal had become imprinted with the Jewish idolatry of the rational literal interpretation of human script and ethnic history.

1984 - On April 9,
The First Asteroid Explosion seen in modern times was observed by the pilot of a Japanese cargo plane over the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan. The round ball-shaped cloud rapidly expanded and looked as if it were a nuclear detonation, only without a fireball or lightning, which are usually associated with nuclear explosions. The mushroom cloud grew to 200 miles in diameter, rising from 14,000 to 60,000 feet in only 2 minutes. Following the episode, an aircraft was sent into the cloud to collect dust samples, which turned out to be nonradioactive. In addition, undersea instruments located near Wake Island, close to the mushroom cloud site, failed to detect an undersea nuclear explosion.

1984 - In April,
REX-84 Bravo, an American "National Security Decision Directive 52", was a blueprint for the military subversion of the United States.
George Bush, Edwin Meese, Louis Guiffrida, Oliver North and other Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA) personnel drafted the plan which was to become operational with the President's declaration of a state of national emergency concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified Central American country, likely Nicaragua.

REX-84 Bravo was to test the FEMA's readiness to become "emergency czar" in the event of a national emergency, such as a nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign country. The FEMA was to act as a buffer between the President and civilian agencies and would have substantial authority in appointing military commanders and running state and local governments. In addition, it would have the authority to place suspected "aliens" (political opposition) into concentration camps and seize their property. In other words, a military coup directed by the President.

The first show of force in Honduras at his time was intended to provide the "national emergency" condition required to test the FEMA's ability to arrest 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the USA and to distribute tons of small arms to "state defense forces" in readiness for a possible invasion. More specifically, the plan was to test the FEMA's readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the National Guard in all 50 states, and a number of state defense forces to be established by state legislatures. The military would then be "deputized" thereby defeating the federal law forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement. Ronald Reagan, while Governor of the state of California had adopted a similar plan under the direction of Edwin Meese, who would later rise to the position of USA Attorney General, and Louis Giffrida, the FEMA director in 1984. Then Attorney General William French Smith learned of the plan in time to stall it. He would leave the administration later and the plan would be revived.

1984 -
A British study on Police-Public Perceptions revealed the following:

The police believed people liked them because of their rapid response, improved clearance rates, state-of-the-art technology, their professionalism, and, above all, the ability of the police to control crime. In reality, these factors meant little to the public, according to their responses. Asked why they liked the police, the public replied by saying that it was the positive human elements of their encounter with the police which they liked.

They liked police who stopped and talked to them, who took the time to listen to their problems, who went out of their way to help those who could not care for themselves. People were obviously looking beyond the uniform and technology and were looking for the human being within - the human being who had often being de-spiritualized by institutional training geared more to dissociation than to association. The public wanted a "social" worker; they usually got a technician.

1984 -
Research on Psychosocial Stress and Cancer yields a number of results which provide a basis for social programs and educational foci for prevention of cancers. some of these are as follows:

"(3) The notion that cancer might in some way be related to stress or emotional factors is as old as the history of recorded medicine.

(10) The high stress high-loneliness group had the lowest natural 'killer cell' activity with the reverse being true for the low stress low-loneliness cohort. ... Interferons, one of the basic defenses against viral infections, are ... suppressed under conditions of emotional stress.

(13) As one descends the phylogenetic scale and examines lower (simpler) forms of life, it becomes apparent that the incidence of cancer decreases progressively. Conversely, the ability of the organism to regenerate tissues, organs, or even parts of the body increases proportionately. ... (Humans) is unique in that (they) respond not only to actual danger but also its anticipation due to complex cognitive processes or symbolic signals. Suchthreats, or the anticipation of noxious stimuli, may elicit responses of far greater magnitude and duration than the actual injury itself.

(14) ... stress reducing lifestyles and positive emotions, all of which provide a sense of control, offer protection (against disease).

(17) Many times it is much more important (for the good physician) to know what kind of patient has the disease than what kind of disease the patient has.

(44) ... effective coping has a striking impact on both tumor development and on immune system-related hormonal changes which can be expected to influence tumor growth. The fundamental finding in these studies is that it is not exposure to a stressor per se but the ability to cope with it effectively which is most likely to influence (tumor change).

(94) Whether a disease state is manifested following the introduction of a pathogen depends upon the integrity of the immune system. This will depend upon such factors as age and genetically determined vulnerability.

(95) ... phagocytic activity (to kill viral, bacterial and fungal microorganisms) was diminished during phases of emotional excitement (ie. hate, vengeance, lust/passion) ....

(97) Allergy or hypersensitivity constitute a significant health problem since 15 to 20% of the population experiences at least one form of allergic disorder and it is commonly held that this form of hypersensitivity may be influenced by psychological factors. ... Bronchial asthma has long been considered to be associated with family conflicts, dependency states and heightened emotional arousal.

(101) Rather than a single entity, cancer actually represents a large heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by the uncontrollable proliferation of cells. In order for cancer to develop, essentially two changes must occur. First, normal cells must be transformed to malignant ones, as a result of genetic coding, spontaneous mutation, or exposure to a carcinogen. Secondly, there must be a failure of the host's defenses against this cellular proliferation.

(103) ... coping styles. Increased survival times for various forms of cancer have been observed among cancer patients who were able to express anger and hostility openly. Poor prognoses were noted among patients who maintained destructive interpersonal relationships and who had a history of alienation from others. Reactions to the disease itself may be an important indicator of prognoses, since it has been observed that denial and a sense of being physically unable to fight the disease characterize patients with short survival times. ... The extent to which stressors exert a significant influence may depend upon the coping style of an individual and the resources or social supports available. ... stressors are conceived of as a series of additive changes rather than events which can be ranked as positive or negative by the individual. ...

(127) Neurochemical consequences of stressors, ... are dependent upon prior experience [and pre-learned coping abilities]. In particular, exposure to uncontrollable stressors ... increases [awareness and reactivity] vulnerability to subsequent stressors so that relatively mild aversive stimulation will come to provoke [influence] reductions of brain NE (norepinephrine) [which normally inhibit the release of activating hormones] ... predisposing (humans) to exaggerated [high-activity] neurochemical responses upon re-exposure to stressors, or to the cues with which they are associated. ... immunological changes associated with stressors ... are similarly influenced by conditioning or sensitization processes.

(163) The way in which the person copes may effect exposure to carcinogenic stimuli ... smoking ... drinking ... [sexual promiscuity] .... Furthermore, the person's [degree of] physiological response [inhibited - normal - exaggerated] may enhance the effects of an existing carcinogen.

(174) ... an individual's adequacy as an adult functioning effectively in accordance with the expectations of society is measured by many socially-developed criteria, that incorporation of these criteria influences the individual's self-perceptions and coping capacity, and that a diagnosis of cancer may heighten the individual's vulnerability to psychosocial stress because at least two other measures (work and wellness) - and, often, a third (persoanl maney management) - may come into question and affect the course of the patient's adjustment to work, to a medical regimen, and to life itself.

(183) A common attitude encountered in the hospital committees was denial by some physician-members that the patient's work life in any way was related to the patient's mode of coping with the diagnosis and or that work had any impact on him and his dependents.

(188) A more common and serious work problem arose from the overt attitudes and behaviours of others encountered in the workplace: dismissal ... transfer to other, less desirable, shifts or locations ... no salary increases ... termination of group health and/or life insurance ... demotion ....

Sometimes interacting with these gross discriminatory acts, and sometimes totally unrelated to them, were hostile actions and statements of others in the work environment. ... A second source of psychosocial stress was the generally inadvertant ot thoughtfully 'thoughtless' response of physicians to a query by a potentialemployer or insurance carrier.

(219) Individuals who in the past have experienced a variety of environments either by moving among cultural groups or who belong to cultural groups which exist in a rapidly changing environment will have modified their knowledge based upon these personal and group experiences.. These experiences usually take the form of discovering that existing behaviour prescriptions do not achieve the desired positive results, or that additional alternatives exist. A search for new behaviour prescriptions is carried out and the successful ones are incorporated into the knowledge base.

(255) Emergent Themes ...

1. ... cancer patients have difficulty in expressing emotions, or even feeling them.

2. ...(a number of factors) predispose some individuals to develop cancer or to progress through the stages more quickly.

3. Recent controlled studies support many earlier ... clinical impressions.

4. ... Knowing one has cancer (does not) lead to mediated findings.

5. ... personality traits or long-standing characteristics of persons who develop cancer or have a less favourable course include niceness, industriousness, perfectionism, sociability, conventionality, and more rigid controls of defensiveness.

6. Underlying attitudes or tendencies of helplessness/hopelessness and of giving up rather than fighting are characteristic of persons with a more favourable course of cancer.

7. The existence and number of past or recent events appears less important than how these were cognitively, emotionally, or behaviourally dealt with.

Over the next 10 years no dramatic new nor any contradictory findings would be determined. Meanwhile, in North American institutional health care and educational systems virtually NONE of the above factors would be utilized to provide more compassionate, empathetic, preventative, care. Only some types of alternative privately funded sources of medical and therapeutic service would seek to empower their patients with coping skills which could save their lives (and their earning capacity) and save their government billions of dollars in health care cost.

All cultures have choices for responding to problems: avoidance, denial, and belittlement; spiritually-derived self-empowerment and empathic support of others; materially-derived submission to human authority together with the attendant expression of withdrawal, intolerance, anger, fear, depression, anxiety, pride. Which human cultures have followed which pattern of choices?

1984 - Between April, 1984 and August, 1985,
Thyroid Hormone Poisoning would be the diagnosis for 121 people who had eaten improperly trimmed meat.
Symptoms of the thyrotoxicosis included elevated blood pressure, nervousness and hyperactivity, sudden weight loss, elevated body temperature, and (occasionally) bulging eyes.

Diagnosed in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, all victims had eaten ground beef made from neck trimmings from a single slaughter plant. The implicated meat was confirmed as the source of the extraneous thyroid when laboratory analysis showed bovine thyroid tissue in the ground beef, and when volunteers developed prompt increases in blood thyroid levels after eating some of the product.

Hormones are not influenced by cooking heats to become less active in human systems.
While hormones usually transfer throughout the body extremely fast from endocrine glands by way of the circulation system, they can also be introduced through the digestive system and some will enter the system directly through the skin. Few more than a dozen human hormones were commonly known a decade ago; more than 40 are now known. Each has the capacity to change one or more body functions and emotional states within seconds. Hormones also exist in plants and a number of herbs are used for these reasons. Hormones from organ and other meats and from spices and herbs have long been used as aphrodisiacs. Unawareness of their source or presence and a reckless use of them can result in a danger to health and life. Careless processing of meats can also be more dangerous than usually recognized.

1984 -
An experiment begins in the Shatskiy Rise region of the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan to determine the degree of safety in burying nuclear radioactive waste in the ocean. A platform, 14 feet long by 8 feet high is lowered 5 km (3 miles) to the seabed carrying a plutonium reactor which is to be driven into the sediment. It is then intended to create heat comparable to 250 degrees fahrenheit, which, because of the depth, will not result in the water boiling. Sensors are expected to determine how much radiation will leak out into the surrounding water.

1984 - During the year,
A USA law Authorizes the Military to License Cameras used on American satellites.
This enables the military to limit the resolution and quality of the photos taken by "private" satellites and available to the public. The National Security Agency (NSA) - the secret arm of the Pentagon and the Executive Office - responsible for gathering electronic intelligence as well as protecting sensitive USA communications, effectively maintains certain information secret from the public, scientists, and industry which some criticize as general information. What the public is unaware of is that images of covert spaceperson bases and activities in the USA and elsewhere, covert USA military intelligence operations, and UFO activities are to be kept secret, or at least "clouded". By ensuring that high resolution photos are the domain only of the military satellites, the NSA remains confident that any "suggestive" photos will be poor enough in quality to easily discredit with retained "experts" who are willing to intellectualize away anything in the interest of national security and money.

1984 -
Beginning by October, Armaments sales to Iraq begin to multiply:

   a) France         sells $5.0 billion in planes, missiles and other arms;
   b) Egypt          sells 100 airplanes and dozens of missile systems;
   c) Italy          sells $370 million in planes, helicopters & missile systems;
   d) Brazil         sells $2.7 billion in troop carriers, missiles, enriched uranium;
   e) Belgium        sells $900 million in arms expertise and manufacturing equipment;
   f) Czechoslovakia sells  $25 million worth of army vehicles;
   g) West Germany   sells $675 million in strategic equipment;
   h) Great Britain provides at least $30 million in military equipment;

   i) Canada         sells  $25 million of jet engines and artillery shells;
   j) The USA        sells $750 million in military technology including SCUD changes;
   k) South Africa   sells million of dollars in military trucks;
   l) Spain          sells 80 helicopters and 200 military vehicles;
   m) Jordon         sells 20 jet aircraft and 280 artillery pieces;
   n) Kuwait         sells 50 tanks.

All of the above orders are completed by the end of 1988.
More than 200 companies from 21 Western nations help Iraq build chemical weapons.
Many countries allowed legal sales of armaments to Iraq despite their own laws banning the sale to Iraq of "lethal weapons", "weapons", "military sales" during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 - 1988. These included West Germany, Great Britain, Canada, the USA, and others. Black market arms transactions would only account for 5% of the arms stockpile.

In addition to the above and during the same period armament sales to Iraq originate from the following:

   a) U.S.S.R.:   4450 tanks, 355 warplanes, 80 SCUD launchers, 5438 field missiles;
   b) China :     1500 tanks, 650 trucks, 72 anti-ship missiles, 720 artillery;
   c) East Germany: 50 tanks;
   d) Poland :     400 tanks, 200 field missiles, ammunition, rifles;
   e) Libya :      400 armoured vehicles;
   f) Austria:     200 artillery;
   g) Rumania:     150 tanks.

1984 - During the year,
Two Chinese astronauts are lost in space during an unpublicised space mission.
Lee Chu-in, 37, and Hu Shengli, 36, went for a space walk and got separated from the space vehicle.
The tethers connecting them to the capsule became entangled and broke, leaving them in orbit until April 9, 1994. Other astronauts on the secret mission tried in vain to rescue their comrades but were forced to abandon the effort because of a fuel shortage. The Chinese tried to recover the bodies in missions in 1986 and 1989 without success. No admission of the flight or the mishap was made until 1992.

1984 - During the year,
John Andreadis, of New York ... Hindu ... Sanatan Dharma ... an explanation of the eternal immutable laws of the universe .... studied religion from an early age ... practised yoga ... studied Sanskrit and physics ... Frederick Von Mierers .. renowned Hindu astrologer ... unity between science and religion.

(John) knew that the I AM reincarnates - our essence but not our personalities ....

Excerpts of Arcturian philosophy ?

(167-)
The earth and her solar system are reaching the end of a grand cycle of the ages. This is much greater that the cycle of 24,000 years ... and its culmination will result in the graduation of countless souls into the permanent awareness of the great I AM. ...

The Aquarian constellation represents the powerful, spiritually charged waves of electromagnetic and spiritual energies bombarding the earth and transforming the vibrations of all things moving, living, breathing, or merely sitting upon her. All energy is being transmuted to a higher frequency. Therefore, only souls who are able to stand these new energies will be able to remain on the planet as we pass into the year 2000.

... we must learn to balance the emotional energies and transcend duality in our minds. ...

all thoughts of anger, jealousy, irritation, deceit, fear and other negative emotions ... repeated indulgence ... habits ... keep our souls earthbound in a self-created ego prison with bars molded out of thoughts. Any limitations that we perceive are only in our minds. Change your thought and you change your life. This is the Great Law. ..

You are that which watches your thoughts pass through your mind.
You are I AM, the eternal uncreated silent watcher. ...

By identifying with our thoughts, which are none other than qualified vibrations of life energy, we become attached to a particular reality pattern. But remember: First I AM, then I act. Your attention is your divine director. Let it be free. By freeing our attention from limitation we are able to attune to any thought vibration that we desire, and that will become our outer reality. ...

The secrets of energy are revealed in Aquarius, and mankind will make tremendous strides forward in this field. ... Aquarius reveals our future 2,000 years, just as we are leaving the Piscean age after 2,000 years. ...

All souls in the beginning acted in harmony with the Divine Will and never became attached to what they thought. They simply experienced their thoughts as a Divine Play. But as time progressed, many souls became attached to their Play and became entrapped in various systems of thought vibrations which ultimately evolved into planets, stars, solar systems ... All of this occurred in the mind of God, the Supreme Cosmic Dreamer.

Though many space beings, who are only souls like us that inhabit thought-worlds, actually incarnate here in the normal fashion, some walk into full-grown bodies, others are beamed down from space-ships, which are only thought-ships that materialize as they enter into this dimension, and still others come here by mental projection. The highest are the ascended Masters who are free from all limitation and can be anywhere they like in an instant. These Great Ones merge into omnipresence and emerge wherever they like through the simplest technique of identification. ... this is the destiny of every soul everywhere, to be like Jesus, the great Yogi-Christs of India, and the ascended Masters, all of whom exhibit the same awareness through identification with the omnipresent I AM consciousness.

No one is from this planet.
Everyone is from God, or consciousness. ... Creation is essentially the union of intelligence with substance. ... in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word is the sacred Aum vibration. ... Aum is both the structure of creation and the intelligent force guiding creation, and this is the basis of awareness. .... Whatever you think, you attract and become.

Thought is the basis of creation.
Thus the mass consciousness determined by the sum total of all thoughts experienced by all the souls on a particular planet determines the mass karma of that planet and that race. This also applies to nations, religions, cities, families or groups of any kind.

That is the crisis that we face on earth.
Our planet receives its life from the cosmic Source through certain energy grids.
It is like a radio. However, the mass karma of humanity is such that we create so much discord that the pattern which sustains this planet is being disintegrated by our disruptive energies. Just as when there is static on the radio, we cannot bring in a station, so do our thoughts create enough static to drown the energy received from the Source. This does not mean that the initial energy is not being sent, but it is being absorbed by discord.

1984 - By October,
"The Satellite Survivability Report" was completed by the USA National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). For years the Pentagon had been studying how to network the common carrier's facilities. Politically and economically, capitalist centralization of ownership of newspapers, radio and television stations had been allowed and encouraged. Most small facilities had been acquired by larger ones and the news stories broadcast at the upper powerful levels became the copy for smaller editions and broadcasts. A series of internal Pentagon documents had been prepared to answer the still larger scale questions of the Defense Department.

Known as the "Satellite Survivability Report", it was the only detailed analysis to date of the vulnerabilities of the commercial satellite network. Begun with the intent of finding a way to protect the network from attack and to keep it intact for the Department of Defense, it would also become a blueprint for how to manipulate the public through an abuse of it. A major part of the report contained an analysis of how to make commercial satellites "interoperable" with Defense Department Systems. The report noted that the use of different frequencies made it difficult for the Pentagon to use commercial satellites, so it recommended ways of resolving these problems. This information plus the NSDD-145's demand that satellite operators tell the NSA how their satellites are controlled, would guarantee the military ample knowledge about operating commercial satellites.

1984 - By October,
"Sexual Offences Against Children: Report of the Committee on Sexual Offences Against Children and Youths", the first report of its kind undertaken and published in North America, was published by the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Ottawa. Following 3 years of interviews and analysis, the survey of 1300 pages, found that more than one out of every two Canadian women, and more than one in threee Canadian men, had been subjected to some kind of sexual abuse as a child. It also found that Canadians of all ages reported about the same incidence of abuse, a strong indication that sexual abuse has been occurring there with about the same frequency since WW1. The Committee concluded that:

"Sexual offenses are committed so frequently, and against so many persons, that there is an evident and urgent need to afford victims greater protection than that now being provided."

In Great Britain, reports of child abuse would rise by 70% over the 6 years ending 1988 -
largely an indication of the increasing acceptability of both admitting to such victimization as well as to the acknowledgement of it and the consideration publicly that such behaviour was anti-social. Keith Bradbrook, an official of Britain's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, would estimate by 1988 that some 50,000 British children fall victim to sexual abuse each year, in a population of 50,000,000.

Many European nations consider sexual abuse of children anti-social yet treat it as a "health problem" rather than one of law enforcement. Accordingly, few charges are laid, fewer convictions are made, and, social awareness remains nil - as the status quo and lack of social and political leadership tend to reinforce the tendency by their actions of denial. 15,000 cases would be reported in West Germany in 1985. The Italian Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children would suggest that the same number of reports were made in their country. In Holland, where the Ministry of Health has established special bureaus staffed by pediatricians and social workers to treat the victims of sexual abuse, an average of 3,000 cases a year are recorded from among a population of 4 million children.

The result of these behaviours would eventually grow in recognition over the next decade to included the following:

   a) modeling by adults was adopted by the children, leading to -
   b) a frequent repetition by the grown child against his/her children;

   c) a low sense of self-esteem, plus
   d) a high tendency to rage and lust feelings, plus
   e) a high degree of defensiveness towards others, plus 
   f) a low trust level of others, plus
   g) a high quotient of toxic shame feelings, plus
   h) a high tendency toward the formation of rigid behaviour patterns,

   i) a difficulty in forming and sustaining positive relationships;

   j) a development of chronic attitudes of depression;

   k) a higher than healthy incidence of acting out behaviours;

   l) an increased likelihood of addictive behaviour dependency;

   m) a tendency towards co-dependent destructive relationships;

   n) a higher than average level of suicide.

These are the "benefits" which participants within a human-authority-based social system, which has used military training and war experiences to ritualize and traumatize, receive. Spiritually deadened leadership has effected events and behaviours adequate to the spiritual deadening of the general population. Slavery to state institutions and the maintenance of a social identity builds upon the continual suppression of or deception of the spiritual strength and identity of the individual. While such a society has the capacity to construct massive military and political power - is the price worth the reward?

1984 - During the year,
The National Security Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145) was signed by USA Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger.
Drafted by Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA chief, the directive conveys the control of all phone systems, data transmissions, and satellite communications to the USA military during any event deemed by the President to be a national emergency.

NSDD-145 set up a steering committee of top-level administration officials.
Their job is to recommend ways to protect information that is unclassified but has been designated sensitive. Such information is held not only by government agencies but by private companies as well.

1984 - By November,
"The Philadelphia Experiment", an American movie produced by New World Pictures, has been released.
It depicts the experience of Carlos Miguel Allende (Carl Allen) who had written 2 similar letters to Morris K. Jessup in the fall of 1955 and January, 1956.

The letters described a Department of Defense experiment which had taken place in 1943, and which the government had "covered up". The story presented, was that a destroyer naval vessel had disappeared with its crew from one dock, only to appear within minutes at another dock elsewhere in the country. The ship was then made to disappear again from a Portsmouth dock and reappear at the original dock in Philadelphia within minutes. Half of the crew were reportedly left mentally disabled. Further, Allen or Allende, stated that there were 2 kinds of aliens from space: one had hostile intentions towards humans; one may have been assisting the human designers and testers of the apparati.

Allen, not receiving much attention from Jessup, then sent an annotated copy of Jessup's book, "The Case for the UFO" to the Office of Naval Research with the same declarations. Some junior officers there, contacted Jessup for his feedback and the similarity of the information in the letters he had received and the annotated copy of his book which the ONR had received led to the conclusion that at the least the authors knew one another. The "Varo Company" of Garland, Texas, thereafter ran a small printing.

In 1968, "New UFO Breakthrough" publication ran a special and dramatic story on the letters and book; other small UFO interest groups had carried the story in their publications in the interim. Allende did not seem to know of this interest and had certainly not benefited from it financially, so, in 1969, he had admitted to Jim and Carol Lorenzen, UFO researchers, that the book was "false ... the craziest pack of lies I ever wrote." It is not unusual for persons who have had a terrorizing traumatic experience to reach a perception, after years of rejection and denial by others, that the best way to cope with the memory is to try and set it aside and carry on with one's life, as best as one can, without further reference to it. In fact, this is the advice which many modern doctors tell their patients who have chronic symptoms for which the doctor lacks the expertise to properly diagnose and lacks the will and the knowledge to constructively treat. The Lorenzen's, already hardened sceptics, gave little thanks or attention to Allende who seemed to represent the most negative aspect of their research: hoaxers.

In 1974, Charles Berlitz had picked up on the uniqueness of the story and mentioned it in his bestseller, "The Bermuda Triangle". By this time Allende had become aware of the rising interest in his "Philadelphia" story and recanted his earlier confession as "a crazy pack of lies." With increasing government secrecy, intolerance of the scientific community towards the growing thousands who had seen UFOs (a willingness to discredit before even investigating or to rationalize into denial with somewhat unintelligent assumptions, and increasing paranoia about the intentions of government military and intelligence agencies (which had now been confirmed to have withheld information from the public in order to manipulate it - the public was becoming interested in any story which suggested conspiracy. Clearly, the "Philadelphia Experiment" did that. In 1979, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz had co-authored a book, "The Philadelphia Experiment".

In 1980, Robert Goerman, a writer and neighbour of Allende's American parents in Springdale, Pennsylvania, interviewed the parents about their son. They believed that Carlos had lived in a world of fantasy and make-believe permanently since he was a child. He had written them letters bragging (they presumed) of his deceptions (or imaginative creativity) and his fantastic (or innovative) mind. Of course, for centuries, the parents, peers and relatives of persons later termed "geniuses" have frequently regarded such individuals as evil, crazy, childish, or, otherwise worthy of avoidance or penalty. None of this received much media exposure, the leaders of which were more interested in what would sell to a public that wanted to hear more of the science fiction fantasy which the movies and television had plied them with.

In the early 1980s, Carlos Allende, in financial distress and obviously not sharing in the rewards of the interest in his story, committed suicide in a Florida park. Rumour spread, in denial of Allende's own confession and the history and letters which Allende's parents had shown to Goerman: sinister government forces had murdered him. While sinister government forces had murdered individuals to maintain secrecy about certain projects, Allende was not one of them. With paranoia rising amongst military industry scandals and "Freedom of Information" exposures, "New World" went ahead and made the movie. The book publisher and the movie producers sensationalized the story enough to raise further public interest without becoming obvious fantasy. It would become another sliver of disinformation in the eye of the public.

This would not be the end of the issue.
By 1995, with acceptance of the reality of UFOs and spacebeings growing, with new UFO magazines and scandal story news journals and TV drama documentaries growing, "The Philadelphia Experiment" would be hot news again. With the popularity of the Berlitz books and the movie and increasing suspicions about the government's motives, many people would believe it.

1984 - By the end of the year,
William (Bill) S. English had been working in Crewe, Virginia for a time at a radio station and writing articles for the local newspaper. His second wife, who had divorced him when she learned that she was pregnant, had sought child support and been denied. English, whose original intent in moving to Virginia had been to evade the military and government agencies which seemed to want him dead, was becoming too relaxed in his outlook. A number of assassination attempts had been made on him since he had seen and read the Grudge/Blue Book #13 document. His relationships and family life had also been destroyed several times. Now he was becoming more socially outgoing, which was positive for him but not for his safety.

One night, while returning from his kitchen after getting a soft drink, he tripped on his shoelaces and fell. A barrage of automatic weapons fire burst through the front of the house which was located only 2 blocks from the local police department. Later estimates by the sheriff's department suggested that several thousand bullets had been fired through the front of the house. Unknown to the attackers, a concrete foundation wall about 3 feet high, had saved his life. English moved to Blackstone, Virginia.

In Blackstone, English went to work for George Walker, a local Angus cattle farmer.
After several months, an accident resulted in English having to take several months to recover.
Fortunately, Walker had insurance which covered the cost of the recovery. During that time, English again began writing articles for a local newspaper.

1984 - During the year,
The number of Christian Bibles, New Testaments and scriptural selections distributed throughout the world numbered over 300 million. Of those it was estimated that as many as 28 million new adherents to Christianity would be generated after a period of study, that is, an average of 78,000 each day for a year by 1987.

Huge Christian congregations are forming in some countries.
In Santiago, Chile, Pastor J. Vasquez leads a church of more than 100,000.
In Guatemala, more than 1.5 million people, that is, 1/4th of the citizens, are now evangelical adherents.
In South Korea, Pastor Yonggi Cho preaches 7 services each Sunday to a total of about 500,000 participants.
In mainland China, following persecution for decades, there are now an estimated 50 to 75 million Christian adherents.

Yet there is inconsistency in the nature of the "Way of Life" being preached such that it is impossible to determine the average level of awareness, spiritual skill-building and aggressiveness of approach. Indeed, it is impossible to provide any suggestion as to where in the continuum of instruction between patterned co-dependency and acquired spiritual awareness the adherents are receiving instruction. The former encourages unrealistic hope and inaction while the latter encourages realistic assessment and response. How much of what do we have?